Wollstonecraft has been labelled by several scholars as one of the founders of modern feminism. Resembling other progressive figures of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment era, Wollstonecraft supported both political and social freedom in her polemic...

Wollstonecraft, Mary(1757 and the Effect It Has Produced in Europe (1794). Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796). Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman (post.). Works on Wollstonecraft Poovey, M. The Proper Lady and the...

(born April 27, 1759, London, England—died September 10, 1797, London) English writer and passionate advocate of educational and social equality for women. The daughter of a farmer, Wollstonecraft taught school and worked as a governess,...

(born April 27, 1759, London, Eng.—died Sept. 10, 1797, London) English writer. She taught school and worked as a governess and as a translator for a London publisher. Her early Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787) foreshadowed her...

Mary Wollstonecraft (pronounced /ËwÊlstÉnkrÉ'Ëft/; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and feminist. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of...