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| Mary Wollstonecraft |
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| 1759–97, English author and feminist. She was an early proponent of educational equality between men and women, and her Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) was the first great feminist document. In Paris, where she lived with an American, Gilbert Imlay, during much of the French Revolution, she was close to many of the Revolution’s leading political figures. After the birth (1794) of a daughter, Fanny, Imlay deserted her, and in 1797 she married William Godwin. She died within days of giving birth to another daughter, Mary, who later became the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. |
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Pronunciation:  w l´st n-kr ft´´, -kräft´´ from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Eternal feminist classic.
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- Wollstonecraft, Mary, 65241 to 65272
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