Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights. Until the late twentieth century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconvention
c. 1797 portrait
Wollstonecraft in 1790–1791, by John Opie
Frontispiece to the 1791 edition of Original Stories from Real Life engraved by William Blake
The insurrection of 10 August 1792
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects is a 1792 essay by British philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft. It is considered a feminis
Mary Wollstonecraft
…wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men but appeared to be only because they lack education. She suggests that both…
First edition title page
The Debutante (1807) by Henry Fuseli; "Woman, the victim of male social conventions, is tied to the wall, made to sew and guarded by governesses. The picture reflects Mary Wollstonecraft's views in The Rights of Women [sic]".
Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix (1833)
Rousseau's Emile (1762)