Mary Wollstonecraft Wrongs Of Woman

Anglo-Irish feminist, intellectual and writer, Mary Wollstonecraft, was born in London, the second of seven children. Her father, Edward John Wollstonecraft, was a family despot (a cruel, all-controlling ruler) who bullied his wife, Elizabeth Dixon, into a state of wearied servitude. He spent a fortune, which he had inherited in various unsuccessful ventures at farming, which took the family to six different locales throughout Britain by 1780, the year Mary's mother died. At the age of nineteen, Mary went out to earn her own livelihood. In 1783, she helped her sister Eliza escape a miserable marriage by hiding her from a brutal husband until a legal separation was arranged. Mary and her sister later established a school in Wilmington Green;

The book was about women as helpless, charming adornments in the household. Society had bred "gentle domestic brutes. Educated in slavish dependence and enervated by luxury and sloth," women were too often nauseatingly sentimental and foolish. A confined existence also produced the sheer frustration that transformed these angels of the household into tyrants over child and servant. Education held the key to achieving a sense of self-respect and anew self-image that would enable women to put their capacities to good use. In Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman, published unfinished in Paris in 1798, Mary asserted that women had strong sexual desires and that it was degrading and immoral to pretend otherwise. In 1792, she set out for Paris. While there, she a witness of Robespierre's Reign of Terror, she collected materials for An Historical and Moral View of the Origins and Progress of the French Revolution: and the effect it has “Produced in Europe” (vol. I, 1794), a book which was sharply critical of the violence evident even in the early stages of the French Revolution. Also; At the home of some English friends in Paris Mary met Captain Gilbert Inlay, an American timber-merchant, the author of The Western Territory of North America (1792). She agreed to become his wife by law and she had a child a daughter named Fanny. After a four months' visit to Scandinavia as his "wife," she tried to drown herself from Chutney Bridge, Inlay having

In August, she had a daughter named, Mary on September 10th Mary Wollstonecraft died. Mary Wollstonecraft was a radical in the sense that she desired to bridge the gap between humankind’s present circumstances and ultimate perfection. She was truly a child of the French Revolution and saw a new age of reason and benevolence nearby. Mary undertook the task of helping women to achieve a better life, not only for themselves and for their children, but also for their husbands. Of course, it took more than a century before society began to put her views into