La educación de las hijas

Mary Wollstonecraft, one of the pillars of feminism, was so groundbreaking in her time that she was called The Beast in Petticoats. Wollstonecraft died of puerperal fever after giving birth to Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus. Better known for writing Vindication of the Rights of Women, The Education of the Daughters is a literary precedent in which she makes a passionate defense of female education and intellectual pleasure as a means of finding existential balance, beyond passions. Likewise, it is a socio-historical x-ray of the challenges with which women faced their future, providing advice to other mothers and revealing their fears and precautions. Amelia Valcárcel, in her prologue, introduces this new edition in an accurate and lucid way.