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Mary Wollstonecraft

Also Known As Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Sociology

Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights, most fully developed in her own political and philosophical writing. She is regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, and later feminists have drawn on both her published arguments and the example of her own unconventional life. Her work helped establish the case for women's equal claim to reason and education that later feminist theory built upon. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Date
1759-04-27 1
Birth Year
1759 1
Death Date
1797-09-10 1
Death Year
1797 1
Birthplace
Spitalfields, London, England 1
Death Place
Somers Town, London, England 1
Nationality / Culture
English 1
Defining Contribution
Founding feminist philosopher whose A Vindication of the Rights of Woman argued that women are not naturally inferior to men and lack only equal education, laying groundwork for later feminist theory. 1
Notable Work
A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) 1
Notable Work
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) 1
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Education, Institutions and Social Structures
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United Kingdom

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Source Mary Wollstonecraft (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia article
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Mary Wollstonecraft (, also UK: ; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights.
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1. Mary Wollstonecraft (Wikipedia)
  • Wikipedia, opening summary
    Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights.
  • Wikipedia body text, tombstone inscription
    Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Born 27 April 1759: Died 10 September 1797.
  • Wikipedia infobox, Born (date)
    27 April 1759
  • Wikipedia infobox, Born (place)
    Spitalfields, London, England
  • Wikipedia infobox, Died (date)
    10 September 1797
  • Wikipedia infobox, Died (place)
    Somers Town, London, England
  • Wikipedia, lead paragraph, notable work
    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.
  • Wikipedia body text, notable work (Rights of Men)
    to participate in the revolutionary events that she had just celebrated in her recent Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790).
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Wikidata: Mary Wollstonecraft
Wikidata Q101638, class allow-list match, case-insensitive label variant (w-bbfill-smallsix2-0926/resolve_ci.ps1)View the Source
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