The publication of The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, edited by Janet Todd and Marilyn Butler, with the assistance of Emma Rees-Mogg (7 vols., London, William Pickering, 1989), has had a beneficial impact on the study of Mary Wollstonecraft's thought and writings. I would like to acknowledge my indebtedness to the editors of this work. The same acknowledgement needs to be made to Eleanor Louise Nicholes for her facsimile reproduction of A Vindication of the Rights Of Men (1790) (Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, Gainesville, Florida, 1960).

I would also like to thank the editors of this series, Raymond Geuss and Quentin Skinner, as well as Richard Fisher and Catherine Max of Cambridge University Press, Susan James, Mark Goldie, Roy Porter, George St Andrews, and for their assistance in reading the typescript Jean Field, Una MacCormack and Nicholas Windsor. Finally, I would like to express my gratitude to the Librarian and staff of Cambridge University Library.