ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MARY SHELLEY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In what city and year was Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin born?
A
London, 1797.
B
Paris, 1797.
C
Liverpool, 1779.
D
London, 1779.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1792 Wollstonecraft left England to observe the French Revolution in Paris, where she lived with an American, Captain Gilbert Imlay. In the spring of 1794 she gave birth to a daughter, Fanny.

Detailed explanation-2: -A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is one of the trailblazing works of feminism. Published in 1792, Wollstonecraft’s work argued that the educational system of her time deliberately trained women to be frivolous and incapable.

Detailed explanation-3: -(b. 1759, London, England; d. 1797, London, England) Mary Wollstonecraft was a renowned women’s rights activist who authored A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792, a classic of rationalist feminism that is considered the earliest and most important treatise advocating equality for women.

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