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Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

  • Troubled Subjects of Family and Initial Writing Contributions

    Troubled Subjects of Family and Initial Writing Contributions
    Mary started focusing on family life subjects, such as arranged marriages, limits of parental power. Her perspective turned to be that parents and culture were the ones responsible for bringing girls to be "empty headed" or things that people play with, parents decided who their girl would marry as a morally bankrupt society and that "mother's took the horizon to be the eyes of the men they flirted with." Mary disagreed with the idea of only vindicating the rights of men, or it was insufficient.
  • Introduction of Mary W. and Work Literature

    Introduction of Mary W. and Work Literature
    Mary obtained good knowledge from some of the best work product of famous Ancient Philosophers, she also drew on some of Shakespeare and Milton's works. Mary started her career as a lady's companion, a schoolteacher, and a governess.
    Her talents were the extent to translating and reviewing, and these talents got her appraise with great many authors. Mary would re-write texts and translate, some from German, Dutch, English, French.
  • Reputation by the end of 1790's

    Reputation by the end of 1790's
    Wollstonecraft believed that God was the one to make things right, and that the cause of everything evil was because of man. She wanted women to realize that their worth came from their independent beings of self-command and knowledge, and not for their appearance. She pushed to educate women, such as their minds and bodies. Shen Mary's cheer was at its peak, she lost support from other women writers, and by the end of the century, she was considered as if she had a "scandalous personal life".
  • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Work

    A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Work
    Wollstonecraft was introduced to a French Statesman and Diplomat, whose name was Charles Talleyrand. Then she dedicated the second edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to him. Wollstonecraft emphasized that rights entail obligations, she also insisted that no one could be expected to fulfill obligations if their natural rights were violated. She claimed that only duties that included natural rights should be respected.