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Mary Wollstonecraft
(1759-1797)
Who Was Mary Wollstonecraft?
Brought up by an abusive father, Mary Wollstonecraft left home and dedicated herself to a life of writing.
While working as a translator to Joseph Johnson, a publisher of radical texts, she published her most famous work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. She died 10 days after her second daughter, Mary, was born.
Early Life and First Works
Wollstonecraft was born on April 27, 1759, in Spitalfields, London.
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Her father was abusive and spent his somewhat sizable fortune on a series of unsuccessful ventures in farming. Perturbed by the actions of her father and by her mother’s death in 1780, Wollstonecraft set out to earn her own livelihood.
In 1784, Mary, her sister Eliza and her best friend, Fanny, established a school in Newington Green. From her experiences teaching, Wollstonecraft wrote the pamphlet Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787).
When her friend Fanny died in 1785, Wollstonecraft took a