Mary Wollstonecraft, born in
London on 27 April 1759, was an English writer and
passionate advocate of educational and social equality for women. She
called for the betterment of women’s status through such political change as
the radical reform of national educational systems.
Such change, she concluded, would benefit all society. Best known for
her Vindication of
the Rights of Women (1792), her influence went beyond the
substantial contribution to feminism she is mostly remembered for and extended
to shaping the art of travel writing as a literary genre and, through her
account of her journey through Scandinavia, she had an impact on the Romantic movement.
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