Mary Wollstonecraft
1759-1797
Mary Wollstonecraft was an influential early advocate of
women's rights. British by birth, she was in France during the Revolution, but
was offended by the Jacobins' treatment of women. They refused to grant
women equal rights, denounced "Amazons", and made it clear that women
were supposed to conform to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideal of helpers to
men.
She died in agony of post-partum infection several days after the birth
of her daughter Mary.
Husband: William Godwin (m. 1797)
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