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Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
Wollstonecraft, Mary (Mrs. William Godwin). The noted author of the ‘Vindication of the Rights of Women’; born in 1759; died in 1797. She was the mother of Mary Godwin, the poet Shelley’s second wife. She published: ‘Thoughts on the Education of Daughters’ (1787); ‘Original Stories’ (1788); ‘Vindication of the Rights of Men’ (1790); ‘Vindication of the Rights of Women’ (1792); ‘Historical and Moral Views of the French Revolution’ (1794); ‘Letters Written in Norway’ (1796). Her ‘Posthumous Works’ appeared in 1798. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).