How long does it take to read Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman?
A Posthumous Fragment (Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft)
Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin
Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin takes about 2 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 53 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1799. 157 pages, about 43,175 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 265 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman is an unfinished novel by Mary Wollstonecraft, conceived as a fictional companion to her earlier treatise on women's rights. Its heroine, Maria, is confined to an insane asylum by her husband. Through her situation and the interwoven stories of women from other social classes, including a servant named Jemima, the book presents marriage as a prison and wives as slaves, under laws that protect husbands. It also shows women harming themselves through romantic fantasy and excessive sentiment, while suggesting that women of different ranks share common interests.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Fiction, Women, Biography, English Authors, Feminists, Feminist fiction, english
