More About Female Author - Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft is best remembered for penning A Vindication of the Rights of Women, an early feminist manifesto published in 1792. But she wasn’t all talk -- her life also exemplified her belief in freeing women from societal restrictions.

Wollstonecraft earned a career as a translator and writer and became part of intellectual circles that included great male thinkers of the time.

Her personal life was unabashedly unconventional: She proposed to her first lover that she live platonically with him and his wife, had a child out of wedlock with her second love, Gilbert Imlay, and eventually married philosopher William Godwin, but maintained a separate residence from him during their marriage.


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