Woman’s Rights in the Lady’s Magazine, 1792 A Philadelphia periodical published this engraving to accompany excerpts from Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. The kneeling woman in eighteenth-century garb holds out a paper entitled “Rights of Woman” to Lady Liberty, imploring her to embrace this new concept. Notice the objects arranged below Lady Liberty. What do they suggest about the picture’s interpretation of the “rights of woman”? Library of Congress.