![]() ![]() Dissatisfied by the restricted career choices then available to women, she made the radical decision to support herself as a professional writer, something very few women of the time could do. Though denied educational opportunities beyond the superficial schooling allowed to girls at the time, Wollstonecraft loved to read and yearned for intellectual life. But Wollstonecraft’s vision of a social order founded on reason and women’s education would become her lasting legacy. Later relationships would also prove difficult, as when the father of Wollstonecraft’s first child abandoned her with the infant in France in the midst of the French Revolution (1789-1799). ![]() Raised in a financially unstable home dominated by a violent, alcoholic father, she was no stranger to hardship. Historically, many people have been more interested in Wollstonecraft’s unusual personal life and associations than her writing. Her life, though short and tumultuous, was characterized by an Enlightenment-inspired passion for reason unusual among women of her era. Early British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a revolutionary thinker who sought to become “the first of a new genus,” a new kind of woman. ![]()
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