MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

EARLY LIFE

EDUCATION

INFLUENCES

LATER LIFE

REJECTION OF SOCIETAL NORMS

• Illegitimate children
• Helped sister leave her marriage
• Independent at a time when women were discouraged from providing for themselves
• Pursued married men

VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN

• Most famous and defining work
• Defined women as oppressed by both men and society
• Reasoned for the solidarity of women
• Theme of education to make better mothers
• Relied on patriarchal gender roles

WORKS

• Mary, A Fiction
• Maria, or The Wrongs of Women
• Original Stories from Real Life
• The Female Reader - Anthology
• A Vindication of The Rights of Women

SOURCES

• plato.standford.edu
• The Creation of the Feminist Conciousness by Gerder Lerner
• Mary Wollstonecraft: A Biography by Eleanor Flexner