Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and philosopher, now regarded as one of the founding figures of feminist philosophy. Largely self-educated, she worked as a governess and teacher before becoming a writer and reviewer in London. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) argued that women's apparent inferiority to men was the product of inadequate education, not natural incapacity. She died eleven days after giving birth to her daughter — Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who would become Mary Shelley.