Wollstonecraft travelled to Paris in 1792 to take notes on the Revolution. She was revolutionary in arguing for education and the need for autonomy for women. She also wrote The Wrongs of Women, a novel telling of the confines and illusion of marriage and child rearing as the only happiness for women. One of her most well-known books was 'An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution (1794). She followed writers such as Catherine Macaulay who wrote Letters on Education in 1790, Thomas Paine, and John Locke. She called for equal education for boys and girls, believing that education gives the tools necessary to compete with men in public and economic life.

She wrote a children's book as well as her two most famous books A Vindication of the Rights of Man (1790), a response to the French Revolution, and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) which argued that women should have the same rights and education as men. Wollstonecraft was not only a writer, she was an early feminist and social campaigner. Wollstonecraft suffered depression following this and being in financial straits, she began to write her first book Thoughts on the Educators of Daughters then Mary: A Fiction. Soon after, her good friend Fanny Blood, died of complications in childbirth. She escaped with her sister to London to preserve her life. In 1784 she experienced the near death of her sister Eliza who was also the victim of abuse at the hands of her husband. Working in the English city of Bath, Somerset, she developed a disliking for the upper class and their social lives. She left home at the age of nineteen to work and become independent. Mary Wollstonecraft was the second oldest child in her family. Her father was known because he was sometimes violent towards her, her four siblings, and their mother when his farms failed. She was born in London, a daughter of a rich farmer who inherited his fortune. Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer.

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