WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Mary Wollstonecraft, married name Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, (born April 27, 1759, London, England-died September 10, 1797, London), English writer and passionate advocate of educational and social equality for women.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mary Wollstonecraft, perhaps the best known woman philosopher of the Enlightenment, experienced firsthand the social upheaval that was the French revolution.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights. She was the major female voice of the Enlightenment. Until the late 20th century, however, Wollstonecraft’s life, received more attention than her writing. The majority of Wollstonecraft’s early works focus on education.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mary Wollstonecraft believed that society was wasting its assets because it kept women in the role of ‘convenient domestic slaves’, and denied them economic independence. She demanded that women should be trained for professions and careers – in medicine (not just nursing), midwifery, business, farming, shop-keeping.

Detailed explanation-5: -Prolific Enlightenment women philosophers and historians included Mary Wollstonecraft, Olympe de Gouges, Catherine Macaulay, Mary Astell, Mary Chudleigh, and Louise d’Épinay. Macaulay’s influential The Letters on Education (1790) advocated for the education of women.