The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary / The Wrongs of Women

Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Man and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints

A Vindication of the Rights of Men

From ForCarl
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a British Freethinker, writer, philosopher, and early feminist. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revoluton, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wollstonecraft is best known for "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior to men, but only appeared to be because they lacked education. She suggested that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagined a social order founded on reason. She was the mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley who authored "Frankenstein", and was the wife of William Godwin. Mary's daughter married the famous poet Percy Shelley.

From Wikipedia
Mary Wollstonecraft (April 27, 1759 – September 10, 1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and early feminist. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior to men, but only appeared to be because they lacked education. She suggested that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagined a social order founded on reason.
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“Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.”