Writer · 1759 – 1797
Mary Wollstonecraft
Little-Known Facts
- Her daughter Mary Shelley, born days before Wollstonecraft's death, would write the classic novel Frankenstein.
- She lived through and wrote about the early French Revolution firsthand from Paris.
Myths & Misconceptions
Was Mary Wollstonecraft anti-men?
No. She argued for the equality and education of women as rational beings, not against men; she sought a fairer society for both sexes.