![]() ![]() ![]() She was a prolific writer and she wrote for Joseph Johnson’s monthly periodical, The Analytic Review. In 1788 Wollstonecraft began to establish herself as a writer. Clare who recognized her intelligence and introduced her to the Bible, the works of Jonathan Swift, William Shakespeare and John Milton. Despite this, Mary acquired her education in Yorkshire and made friends with clergyman Mr. ![]() Mary's father was gruff and abusive and her mother passive and neglectful. Mary Wollstonecraft lived in Paris during the most climactic episode of the French Revolution: the trial and beheading by guillotine of King Louis XVI. She had an older brother, Edward (Ned), and four younger siblings. Mary Wollstonecraft was born in London, in 1759, to John Edward Wollstonecraft and Elizabeth Dickson. The book is addressed to Edmund Burke and is considered a milestone in the history of feminism. Her book, “A Vindication on the Rights of Woman”, published in 1792, revolves around the central issue of women’s rights especially with respected to women education. Mary Wollstonecraft is considered as the “mother of feminism” or rather the ‘first feminist”. ![]()
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