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    The First Essay on the Political Rights of Women
    The First Essay on the Political Rights of Women
    The First Essay on the Political Rights of Women
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    The First Essay on the Political Rights of Women

    By Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Condorcet and Alice Drysdale Vickery

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The First Essay on the Political Rights of Women - Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Condorcet

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      Title: The First Essay on the Political Rights of Women

      Author: Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat Condorcet

      Translator: Alice Drysdale Vickery

      Release Date: March 8, 2010 [EBook #31550]

      Language: English

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      THE FIRST ESSAY

      ON

      The Political Rights

      of Women.

      A Translation of Condorcet’s Essay "Sur l’admission

      des femmes au droit de Cité" (On the Admission

      of Women to the Rights of Citizenship).

      — Collected Writings , 1789.

      BY

      DR. ALICE DRYSDALE VICKERY.

      (WITH PREFACE AND REMARKS.)

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      Price Twopence.

      Preface.

      More than one hundred years have passed away since, in 1789, the Marquis de Condorcet wrote his "Esquisse sur l’Admission des Femmes au Droit de Cité," and yet the problem of women’s enfranchisement still awaits an equitable solution. Those of us who are old enough to remember the inauguration of the popular movement for the extension of the franchise to women (which may be dated from the day in which our late noble leader, John Stuart Mill, addressed the House of Commons on this subject, in May, 1867), feel that our lives are passing away while wearily awaiting the dilatory educational development of mankind in this question.

      The essential principles of our claim have been reiterated again and again. We form one-half of the human race, and need recognition by the law as much as the other half of the race. But, as long as our law-makers are not directly responsible to us for their conduct in Parliament, they may, and do, safely neglect our interests,

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