Mary Wollstencraft begins “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” with a Dedicatory Letter to M. Talleyrand-Périgord, former Bishop of Autun. She outlined that her intention is to argue against his treaty that suggested women only receive a domestic education and stay out of political affairs. She has much to say in response to his work and the inequality between men and women in the French constitution. The basis for her arguments are on the premise that if women are not as equally educated as men, the progress of knowledge and truth is damaged. Women must know why they are to be a certain way and they must understand the values they are teaching their children. Both men and women would profit from female education, and there is no benefit
