Mary Wollstonecraft
1759 – 1797 English philosopher, writer
The founder of modern feminist philosophy.
- Religion
- A Rational Dissenter, a Protestant who valued reason and personal conscience over church authority.
- Affiliations
- Part of a radical London circle around the publisher Joseph Johnson. No secret society.
Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, arguing that women are rational beings entitled to education and equality. It became a founding text of feminism. She was the mother of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.
In the timeline
- 1792 Publication of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman mentioned
- 1792 Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman mentioned