Wollstonecraft
Americannoun
noun
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Given rational training rather than the then-standard collection of feminine accomplishments, women could, Wollstonecraft argued, prove themselves men’s intellectual equals, become companions in marriage, and play a significant role in civic society.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
The daughter of political radicals Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, she'd enjoyed an unconventional childhood by the standards of the times, leading to an early marriage to the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025
English writer and women’s rights activist Mary Wollstonecraft was so obsessed with her best friend that after her friend died, Wollstonecraft wore a mourning ring made of her friend’s hair until her own deathbed.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2025
I don’t know if this daddy-knows-best attitude has met a better critic since Mary Wollstonecraft took it down more than two centuries ago.
From Slate • Apr. 27, 2025
The author, Mary Wollstonecraft, argued that women weren’t naturally inferior to men but lacked educational opportunities that allowed them to achieve equality.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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