Mary Wollstonecraft
English writer and intellectual (1759-1797) · United Kingdom · Writers · Died at 38
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Something wrong?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.
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Grave of Mary Wollstonecraft Goodwin and William Goodwin in churchyard of St PancrasIn their own words 10
, Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.
I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor thing!
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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.
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