Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft was born in London in 1759. Her father wasted the family's money and was often violent, and she tried to protect her mother and sisters. With little formal education, she worked as a lady's companion and then, with her sisters and her friend Fanny Blood, opened a school at Newington Green, near London. Her first book, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787), drew on that experience. After a year as a governess in Ireland, she settled in London as a writer and translator for the publisher Joseph Johnson. She replied to Edmund Burke's criticism of the French Revolution in A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), and in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) she argued that women were not naturally inferior to men but appeared so because they were denied education, and that they should be educated as rational beings. She traveled to Paris to observe the Revolution and later to Scandinavia. In 1797 she married the philosopher William Godwin. She died in London that year, eleven days after giving birth to their daughter, Mary, later the author of Frankenstein.

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Faith: Faith not well documented in detail; she lived and taught in the Dissenting community of Newington Green. Source: Wikipedia