Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft was a determined philosophe and fiery feminist leader during and just before the French Revolution. She was born in 1759 and lived under the tyranny of an abusive father; at the age of nineteen she escaped from home to pursue a writing career. After many stunts writing for a paper of radical thought, she wrote her most famous work titled, A Vindication of the Rights of Women. Her novel brought her fame and infamy because it attacked men for not allowing women the same oppurtunites and freedoms that they possessed. This work was important because it labeled Mary Wollstonecraft as a strong feminist and brought her into the public eye. She was very opinionated about politics and combined her devout christian morals into the way government was run. Despite her greatness as an activist she was very troubled; she married, was abandoned, attempted suicide, had children, and then remarried but only a couple of years before her death in 1798.