Two friendships shaped Wollstonecraft's early life.
Fanny Imlay), Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin,
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.
Edward John Wollstonecraft.
Wollstonecraft revelled in the intellectual atmosphere of the Arden household
This daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, became an accomplished writer herself,
Wollstonecraft died at the age of 38 leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts.
Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman(1792),
Wollstonecraft played a similar maternal role for her sisters,
Everina and Eliza, throughout her life.
She was the second of the seven children of Elizabeth Dixon and Edward John Wollstonecraft.
Consequently, the family became financially unstable and
they were frequently forced to move during Wollstonecraft's youth.
Wollstonecraft made all of the arrangements for Eliza to flee,
demonstrating her willingness to challenge social norms.
Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin,
and her mother the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.
Mary Wollstonecraft(27 April 1759-
10 September 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights.
to leave her husband and infant; Wollstonecraft made all of the arrangements for Eliza to flee,
When 16 year old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin runs away with poet Percy Bysshe
Shelley her family are horrified.
Of particular note, Godwin's wife was none other than
the founding mother of modern feminist thought, Mary Wollstonecraft.
As a teenager, Wollstonecraft used to lie outside the door of her mother's bedroom to protect her.
This daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, became an accomplished writer herself,
as Mary Shelley, whose best known work was Frankenstein.
Upon her return to London, Wollstonecraft discovered that, while she was working on
his behalf, Imlay had deserted her.
When her friend Fanny died in 1785, Wollstonecraft took a position as governess for the Kingsborough family in Ireland.
Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional personal relationships, received more attention than her writing.
In some of Wollstonecraft's letters to Arden,
she reveals the volatile and depressive emotions that would haunt her throughout her life.
However, with the emergence of the feminist movement at the turn of the twentieth century, Wollstonecraft's advocacy of women's equality
After Wollstonecraft's death, her widower published a Memoir(1798)
of her life, revealing her unorthodox lifestyle, which inadvertently destroyed her reputation for almost a century.
However, with the emergence of the feminist movement at the turn of the twentieth century, Wollstonecraft's advocacy of women's equality
and critiques of conventional femininity became increasingly important.
After two ill-fated affairs, with Henry Fuseli and Gilbert Imlay(by whom she had a daughter,
Fanny Imlay), Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin,
one of the forefathers of the anarchist movement.
Best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman(1792), Wollstonecraft argued that women were not inferior to men,
but only appeared to be because they lacked access to education.
Wollstonecraft wrote to her:“I have formed romantic notions
of friendship… I am a little singular in my thoughts of love and friendship; I must have the first place or none.”.
After two ill-fated affairs, with Henry Fuseli and Gilbert Imlay(by whom she had a daughter,
Fanny Imlay), Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin,
one of the prime movers in the anarchist movement.