Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft (Author) Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) was a writer and founding feminist philosopher. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is her most famous work, but she also wrote novels, treatises and a history of the French Revolution, many of whose events she witnessed first-hand in Paris. She died eleven days after giving birth to her daughter, Mary Shelley. Miriam Brody (External Editor, Introducer) Miriam Brody is a professor in the Writing Program at Ithaca College, New York.