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23 de abr. de 2024 · Mary Wollstonecraft (born April 27, 1759, London, England—died September 10, 1797, London) was an English writer and passionate advocate of educational and social equality for women. She outlined her beliefs in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), considered a classic of feminism.
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- Who Was Mary Wollstonecraft?
- Early Life and First Works
- Personal Life, Death and Legacy
Brought up by an abusive father, Mary Wollstonecraft left home and dedicated herself to a life of writing. While working as a translator to Joseph Johnson, a publisher of radical texts, she published her most famous work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. She died 10 days after her second daughter, Mary, was born.
Wollstonecraft was born on April 27, 1759, in Spitalfields, London. Her father was abusive and spent his somewhat sizable fortune on a series of unsuccessful ventures in farming. Perturbed by the actions of her father and by her mother’s death in 1780, Wollstonecraft set out to earn her own livelihood. In 1784, Mary, her sister Eliza and her best f...
In 1792, while visiting friends in France, Wollstonecraft met Captain Gilbert Imlay, an American timber merchant and adventurer. Taken by him, she soon became pregnant. They named their daughter Fanny, after Mary’s best friend. While nursing her firstborn, Wollstonecraft wrote a conservative critique of the French Revolution in An Historical and Mo...
Mary Wollstonecraft (/ ˈ w ʊ l s t ən k r æ f t /, also UK: /-k r ɑː f t /; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. [2] [3] Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional personal relationships at the time, received ...
- 27 April 1759, Spitalfields, London, England
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- 10 September 1797 (aged 38), Somers Town, London, England
Mary Wollstonecraft /ˈwʊlstənkrɑːft/ ( Spitalfields, 27 de abril de 1759- Londres, 10 de septiembre de 1797) fue una escritora y filósofa inglesa. Considerada una figura destacada del mundo moderno. Escribió novelas, cuentos, ensayos, tratados, un relato de viaje y un libro de literatura infantil.
- St Pancras Old Church, Camden y St Peter's Church, Bournemouth
16 de abr. de 2008 · Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was a moral and political philosopher whose analysis of the condition of women in modern society retains much of its original radicalism.
7 de dic. de 2023 · Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was an Enlightenment philosopher who, as author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, is widely credited as the founder of feminism. Wollstonecraft called for equal education opportunities for men and women , and she stressed the benefits to society as a whole of improving the situation of women in ...
