Mary Wollstonecraft
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Meaning
English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women; mother of Mary Shelley (1759-1797)
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Appendix B: Books about Mary Wollstonecraft.
As a young woman, writer and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft was attached to a woman named Fanny Blood.
Benedict 1959: 55–79 She also began work on writing a biography about Mary Wollstonecraft and other lesser known women that she felt deserved more acknowledgement for their work and contributions.
Burr believed women to be intellectually equal to men, and hung a portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft over his mantel.
By 1821 she had read Mary Wollstonecraft 's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), and become a passionate supporter of Wollstonecraft's ideas.
She died aged just 38 having given birth to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, who wrote the gothic novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus.