Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was born in London and largely educated herself. With her friend Fanny Blood and her sisters she ran a school at Newington Green, and she later worked as a governess in Ireland before the London publisher Joseph Johnson employed her as a reviewer and translator. Her books include Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787), A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), written in reply to Edmund Burke, A Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution (1794) and Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796). She lived in Paris during the Revolution, had a daughter, Fanny, with the American Gilbert Imlay, and married the philosopher William Godwin in 1797. She died in September 1797 of puerperal fever, eleven days after the birth of her second daughter, Mary, later the author of Frankenstein.
Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in about six weeks in the autumn of 1791, and Joseph Johnson published it in London early in 1792. Two years earlier she had answered Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France with A Vindication of the Rights of Men.
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