Mary Wollstonecraft

1759–1797

6 standalone books

Mary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. She was born on 27 April 1759 and died on 10 September 1797. Throughout her short career, she produced a variety of works, including novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. She is most recognized for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argued that women are not inherently inferior to men but appear so due to a lack of education. Wollstonecraft believed that both men and women should be regarded as rational beings and envisioned a society based on reason.

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1759