# Émile prints Sophie’s education as dependence, later attacked in Wollstonecraft’s Vindication

Date: 1762

## The fact

The 1762 Émile educates Sophie to please and to be useful to Émile. Mary Wollstonecraft’s 1792 Vindication names that education as a public injury to women. The dated lead instrument here is Émile; 1792 is the independent naming.

## Context

A treatise can open childhood and close girlhood. Split Émile’s general pedagogy onto an improving row.

[Jean-Jacques Rousseau](/people/jean-jacques-rousseau) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official library, encyclopedia, or public-domain edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Emile, or Education — public-domain English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5427; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

Printed dependence-education for girls is a rights-hierarchy path, not a private marriage.

Printed dependence-education for girls is a rights-hierarchy path, not a private marriage.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: https://factrail.ai/people/jean-jacques-rousseau

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3420
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5427

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-emile-sophie-women