This week's guest host, Dr. Kimberly Crowley, speaks with President Jefferson about Mary Wollstonecraft.
Further Reading
- Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life (2000) by Janet Todd
- Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (2006) by Lyndall Gordon
- Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley (2015) by Charlotte Gordon
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
"Paine refused to take proceeds from this book."
— Clay S. Jenkinson
This week, we present another of our Jefferson Hour Book Club episodes and discuss Thomas Paine’s Common Sense.
She saw that there was no legitimate reason to exclude women from the revolutionary formula being bandied about by her famous husband and his male pals.
"Oh my."
— Thomas Jefferson, as portrayed by Clay S. Jenkinson
Something has happened that has never happened in the United States before: a woman has been nominated for president by one of the two major political parties.