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
William Godwin
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William Godwin was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. Godwin is most
Mary Wollstonecraft
…After two ill-fated affairs, with Henry Fuseli and Gilbert Imlay (by whom she had a daughter, Fanny Imlay), Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin, one of the forefathers of the anarchist movement. Wollstonecraft died at the age of 38, leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts. She died 11…
Portrait by Henry William Pickersgill
James Northcote, William Godwin, oil on canvas, 1802, the National Portrait Gallery