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In the following months she conspired with others to attempt the escape from revolutionary hands of aristocratic...
Textual Features
Ann Oakley
This book covers a great deal of ground. When it turns back from Modern Problems to A Brief History of Methodology its exemplars include Margaret Cavendish
(who also provides one of three opening epigraphs), the...
Timeline
1787
In France, Condorcet
published Lettres d'un bourgeois de Newhaven, which makes a serious and straightforward case for full civil rights for women, including suffrage.
3 July 1790
Condorcet
developed the case for full equality of rights, regardless of religion, race or gender, in an article entitled Sur l'admission des femmes au droit de cité.
15 February 1793
The feminist Condorcet
submitted his plan for a new Constitution for France; it was rejected.
24 June 1793
A new Constitution, revised from that drafted by Condorcet
and Paine
, was proclaimed in France.