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Wollstonecraft

noun

English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women; mother of Mary Shelley (1759-1797). Synonyms: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.

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... April, 1759. Her father—a quick-tempered and unsettled man, capable of beating wife, or child, or dog—was the son of a manufacturer who made money in Spitalfields, when Spitalfields was prosperous. Her mother was a rigorous Irishwoman, of the Dixons of Ballyshannon. Edward John Wollstonecraft—of whose children, besides Mary, the second child, three sons and two daughters lived to be men and women—in course of the got rid of about ten thousand pounds, which had been left him by his father. He began to get rid of it ...

— Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark • Mary Wollstonecraft

... M. Wollstonecraft was born in 1759. Her father was so great a wanderer, that the place of her birth is uncertain; she supposed, however, it was London, or Epping Forest: at the latter place she spent the first five years of her life. In early youth she exhibited traces of exquisite ...

— A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Title: Vindication of the Rights of Women • Mary Wollstonecraft [Godwin]

Words linked to "Wollstonecraft" : women's liberationist, feminist, women's rightist, author, libber, writer