Wollstonecraft

[wool-stuhn-kraft, ‑-krahft]

noun

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

Wollstonecraft

/ ˈwʊlstənˌkrɑːft /

noun

1. 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

Example Sentences

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.

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Wollstonecraft was an advocate of women’s rights and is considered one of the forerunners of feminism.

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Mary Shelley, who wrote “Frankenstein,” also spent time in the park, where her mother, the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, was buried before her remains were relocated.

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Again, perhaps Mary Shelley had a similar upbringing to Mary Wollstonecraft.

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Silva succeeds in making Wollstonecraft — the critic, novelist, translator, trailblazing feminist and the mother of Mary Shelley, the author of “Frankenstein” — a vibrant and forceful personality, full of both love and fury.

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