Mary Wollstonecraft

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born

April 27, 1759 in London, The United Kingdom

died

September 10, 1797

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female

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Philosophy, Literature & Fiction, Women & Gender Studies

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Mary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth century British writer, philosopher, and feminist. 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.

Among the general public and specifically among feminists, Wollstonecraft's life has received much more attention than her writing because of her unconventional, and often tumultuous, personal rela...more

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Average rating: 3.72 · 4,008 ratings · 203 reviews · 65 distinct works

	A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, Miriam Brody 3.77 avg rating — 3,184 ratings — published 1792 — 125 editions	My rating:
	Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, Gary Kelly (Editor) 3.31 avg rating — 401 ratings — published 1798 — 56 editions	My rating:
	A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution by Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet M. Todd (Editor) 3.83 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 1995 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark and Memoirs of the Author by Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Richard Holmes (Annotations) 3.66 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1987	My rating:
	Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark 3.39 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1796 — 44 editions	My rating:
	The Collected Letters Of Mary Wollstonecraft 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1979 — 4 editions	My rating:
	A Vindication of the Rights of Men 3.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1790 — 9 editions	My rating:
	A Vindication of the Rights of Woman/the Subjection of Women/2 Books in 1 (Everyman's Library by Mary Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1992	My rating:
	Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, 1787 (For Her Own Good: A Series of Conduct Books) 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1787 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Vol. 1) by Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet M. Todd 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions	My rating:

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“The beginning is always today.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft

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“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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“[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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