Reading and Radicalization: Print, Politics, and the American Revolution

Figure 3.

The Boston pamphlet version of Locke's Second Treatise, the first stand-alone printing of the text in English. The printers suggested in 1773 that every free mother should explain Locke to her daughter, and at least one surviving copy (now held in the British Library) may indeed have belonged to a woman, but the edition did not sell out before Independence and was later marketed in 1779 to readers considering the reconstitution of government in Massachusetts. Courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia.