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On any given Sunday, you'd find a mix of painters like William Blake, all-time agitators for parliamentary reform, celebrity democrats like Tom Paine.
每周日，都會出現一群像威廉·布雷克這樣的畫家，一心鼓動議會改革的人，像湯姆·潘恩這樣著名的民主黨人。
And you'd find women -- articulate, intelligent and impassioned.
甚至還有女子--雄辯、智慧、激情的人在此聚會。
And among those women, the most striking of all was Mary Wollstonecraft.
那些女子之中，最引人注目的是瑪麗·沃斯通克拉夫特。
She was the spirit of the time. Mary Wollstonecraft was a one-woman revolution.
她代表著這個時代的精神。瑪麗·沃斯通克拉夫特發動的是一場女性革命。
Living a hand-to-mouth existence as a writer, given a roof over her head by Johnson, Mary burst into print in outrage at Burke's reflections.
作為一名生活拮據的作家，有了約翰遜提供的庇護所，瑪麗在得知柏克的觀點后憤而寫書。
While she was doing it, she also noticed that the rights of men weren't worth much if they excluded the other half of human society.
在此期間，她也注意到倘若男人們無視人類社會的另一半，那他們的權利便毫無價值。
So she produced her own amended version, "A Vindication of the Rights of Women".
由此她出版了個人修正過的版本《女權辯護》。
If nature was to be held up as the handmaid of liberty and equality, we'd better think about the natural state of women.
倘若天性被視為自由與平等的附庸，我們最好想想女人們生來的地位。
The reason, she said, why women were so slighted was that from the time they were little girls, their entire being was designed with the sole and sovereign aim of pleasing men.
她認為，女人之所以受到如此的輕視，是因為從幼兒時期起，她們的一生中唯一且至高的目標便被設定為取悅男人。
She had no time for Rousseau's idea that women, by their very nature, could be no more than wives and mothers.
她并不贊同盧梭的觀點--女人就其本質來說只能作為妻子和母親而存在。
There was nothing she could see in her nature which disqualified her from being a true citizen.
她認為她生來的權利便是成為一名真正的公民。
For daring to say these things, Mary was abused as "Unnatural".
因為敢于直言這些事情，瑪麗被辱罵為"反人道"。
Horace Walpole, the essayist, called her "A hyena in petticoats".
評論家霍勒斯·沃波爾稱呼她為“一條穿著襯裙的鬣狗”。
Like Wordsworth before her, Mary Wollstonecraft hoped that in the new French Republic she'd find like-minded souls with whom to share her radical views.
如同在她之前的華茲華斯，瑪麗·沃斯通克拉夫特希望在新的法蘭西共和國里她能夠找到與她志同道合的人。
But what she landed in was the jumpy, paranoid dictatorship of the Jacobins. Rousseau's face and his books were everywhere.
然而她所處的是動蕩、偏執的雅各賓派專政時期。盧梭的身影和著作隨處可見。
Slavishly obedient to his dogma, French women who meddled in politics were told to shut up and nurse their babies for the revolutionary fatherland.
奴隸般地服從于他的教條，談論政治的法國婦女們被禁言，一心為革命中的祖國生兒育女。
Those who didn't, who dared organise their own political clubs, were beaten up on the streets.
那些不服從的、膽敢組織自己政治團體的婦女，在街上遭到毒打。
