Mary Wollstonecraft was born in Spitalfields located in London on 27th April 1759 and died in 1797 in London. Mary’s father was an abusive man to her and her family; therefore, she decided to live home and became a writer in 1780. This occurred after the death of her mother (Kaplan). She became an advocate for women’s right. In her short career, she was able to make a name for herself. When she was alive, her personal life was famous especially in her love life. It is claimed that she became involved with Gilbert Imlay and gave him a child. She also dated Henry Fuseli. She had a daughter with Gilbert Imlay and named her as Fanny Imlay. She went on to be married to William Godwin whom she had a daughter with and named her after herself (Todd). While having her daughter she acquired some complications and died a few days later.
In her life, she was considered to be one of the female philosophers and a writer. One of her most famous work was for the work she wrote called A Vindication of the Rights of Women. She wrote this work in 1792. In this book, it talks about the rights for women by stating how women are not inferior to men. She believed that it was because the women lacked some sort of education that made it look like they were inferior to the men (Todd). In the work, she suggested that both the men and women should be treated equally in the social standings. This book brought a lot of controversy at that time when women were considered to be inferior to men.
Mary’s other popular work is Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, which was famous in the 1790. The other popular work was written after she gave birth to her first child and was called An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution (Kaplan). This work was analyzing the French revolution at that time.
In conclusion, Mary Wollstonecraft was a very accomplished writer, philosopher and women’s write activist. Her most famous work was used to talk about women’s rights especially education. She believed that when women became educated they would be able to be in the same positions as men. Her other works comments on the French revolution. She died at a young age of thirty-eight years old.
Work cited
Kaplan, Cora. Mary Wollstonecraft's reception and legacies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Print
Todd, Janet. Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson Publishers, 2000. Print
