Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and feminist. She lived form April 27 1759 – September 10 1797. During her life she wrote novels treatises, a travel narrative, and A History of the French Revolution. She is really known for A Vindication of The Rights Of Women. Which said that women were not inferior to men, but were only because they lacked education. She suggested that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and foresaw a social order founded on that reason. In another one of her novels Maria, or the Wrongs of Women Mary stated that women had strong sexual desires and that it was degrading and immoral to pretend otherwise.In 1792 she set out for Paris and saw Robespierre's Reign of Terror, and she collected materials for An Historical and Moral View of the Origins and Progress of the French Revolution: and the effect it has Produced in Europe. Which was criticized for the violence contained inside it.

She died giving birth to her second child Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin who would end up being the person who wrote Frankenstein.