RAUSCHENBUSCH-CLOUGH, Emma.

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A Study of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman. First edition. This rehabilitative biography was significant in the vindication of Wollstonecraft's legacy. "The image of Wollstonecraft as an irreligious, immoral fanatic dominated public perceptions of her for many decades. In the 1890s her reputation was still being used as a stick with which to beat women's suffragists" (ODNB). Here the author insists that Wollstonecraft "had neither betrayed women nor tampered with men's affections" (Hirsch, p. 56). The Baptist scholar Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough (1859-1940) attended Wellesley College and Rochester Female Seminary, and the present volume is an expansion of her doctoral thesis awarded by Berne in 1894. Active in the Social Gospel movement, she was also known for her books recounting her missionary work in India. "Perhaps the same missionary impulse inspired her defence of that pariah, Mary Wollstonecraft" (ibid., p. 60).

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