Transcriber's note: The author is Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797).





MARY,

A Fiction

L'exercice des plus sublimes vertus éleve et nourrit le génie.
ROUSSEAU.

London,
Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard.

MDCCLXXXVIII







ADVERTISEMENT.


In delineating the Heroine of this Fiction, the Author attempts to
develop a character different from those generally portrayed. This woman
is neither a Clarissa, a Lady G----, nor a[A] Sophie.--It would be vain