Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an eighteenth-century English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason.
== Tossup Questions ==
# The ailing marriage of this thinker's sister Eliza to Meredith Bishop has been interpreted by some as the basis for an unfinished novel in which George Venables confines his wife to an insane asylum. The subject of critical biographies by Eleanor Flexner and Ralph Wardle, this thinker clashed with Edmund Burke after praising Richard Price's analysis of the French Revolution. This thinker believed that marriages should be based foremost on friendship, and attacked the increasing number of men in professions such as (*) midwifery. In a major work, this author of Thoughts on the Education of Daughters lambasted sensibility as being opposed to reason and argued against Rousseau's Emile for its claim that the goal of the education of women was to serve men. For 10 points, name this author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.