CONTENTS
Preface by William S.  Godwin
Author's Preface
Maria 

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MARIA
or
The Wrongs of Woman 

PREFACE 

THE PUBLIC are here presented with the last literary attempt
of an author, whose fame has been uncommonly extensive, and whose
talents have probably been most admired, by the persons by whom
talents are estimated with the greatest accuracy and discrimination.
There are few, to whom her writings could in any case have given
pleasure, that would have wished that this fragment should have
been suppressed, because it is a fragment.  There is a sentiment,