Wollstonecraft

American

[wool-stuhn-kraft, ‑-krahft] / ˈwʊl stənˌkræft, ‑ˌkrɑft /

noun

Mary Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 1759–97, English author and feminist (mother of Mary Shelley).

Wollstonecraft British

/ ˈwʊlstənˌkrɑːft /

noun

Mary. 1759–97, British feminist and writer, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792); wife of William Godwin and mother of Mary Shelley

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Where Austen enjoyed laughing at these, Wollstonecraft regarded them as dangerous fantasies.

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

I returned to the Internet and then to the shelves, where I exchanged the books of the second wave for those that preceded the first—Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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