![]() ![]() She wrote a children's book as well as her two most famous books A Vindication of the Rights of Man (1790), a response to the French Revolution, and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) which argued that women should have the same rights and education as men. Wollstonecraft was not only a writer, she was an early feminist and social campaigner. Wollstonecraft suffered depression following this and being in financial straits, she began to write her first book Thoughts on the Education of Daughters. Soon after, her good friend Fanny Blood, died of complications in childbirth. She escaped with her sister to London to preserve her life. In 1784 she experienced the near death of her sister Eliza who was also the victim of abuse at the hands of her husband. ![]() Working in the English city of Bath, Somerset, she developed a disliking for the upper class and their social lives. She left home at the age of nineteen to work and become independent. Mary Wollstonecraft was the second oldest child in her family. Her father was known because he was sometimes violent towards her, her four siblings, and their mother when his farms failed. She was born in Spitalfields, a daughter of a rich farmer who inherited his fortune. Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer. ![]()
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