# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-wollstonecraft
# Generated: 2026-09-02T07:05:20.320Z

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name: "Mary Wollstonecraft"
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description: "She wrote the argument that women's inequality wasn't natural but built — a matter of education, not essence. For a century after her death, the scandal of how she lived mattered more than what she thought."
tagline: "English writer and intellectual (1759–1797)"
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birthDate: "1759-04-27"
deathDate: "1797-09-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 1759, Mary Wollstonecraft built a brief, furious career across genres: novels, treatises, a history of the French Revolution, a travel narrative, a conduct book, a children's book. In 1792 she published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, arguing that women appeared inferior only because they lacked education and proposing a social order founded on reason for both sexes. Two failed relationships — with Henry Fuseli and Gilbert Imlay, who fathered her daughter Fanny — preceded her marriage to philosopher William Godwin. She died at 38 in 1797, eleven days after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Shelley, who would write Frankenstein. Godwin's well-meaning 1798 memoir revealed her unconventional personal life and wrecked her reputation for nearly a century, until the feminist movement reclaimed her as a founder.