Mary Wollstonecraft

Best known as author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), if not also as mother of Frankenstein''s author Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft survived domestic violence and unusual independent womanhood to write engaging letters, fiction, history, critical reviews, handbooks and treatises. Her work on coeducational thought was a major early modern influence upon the development of a post-...