Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
Alternate names: WOLLSTONECRAFT, MARY, 1759-1797.; MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT; Wollstonecraft Mary; Godwin, Mary formerly Wollstonecraft; Mary Mary Wollstonecraft; Afterwards Godwin Mary Wollstonecraft; Mary Wollstonecraft Wollstonecraft; Mary 1759-1797 Wollstonecraft; mary wollstonecraft; Wollstonecraft Mary 1759-1797
Title: formerly Wollstonecraft
Born: 27 April 1759
Died: 10 September 1797
Bio: Mary Wollstonecraft (pronounced /ˈwʊlstən.krɑːft/; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an eighteenth-century British 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.