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

Mary Wollstonecraft, the foremost female thinker of the 18th-century Enlightenment, published “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” shortly before Austen began her writing career.

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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.

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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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