Mary Wollstonecraft (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
The pioneer feminist Mary Wollstonecraft (WOOL-stuhn-kraft) endured a long eclipse of her literary and personal reputation until the emergence of the twentieth century feminist movement and the publication of a biography of this radical writer by Ralph Wardle (1951). Wollstonecraft was the second child and first daughter of the seven children of Edward and Elizabeth Dickson Wollstonecraft. Her childhood and adolescence were marred by her father’s improvidence and brutality and her mother’s indifference. Her early life was punctuated by several moves, particularly to Beverly in...
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