leepacey:

mary wollstonecraft is a very important lady and you should know some things about her:

• she’s considered to be one of the founding feminist philosophers of the 18th century and wrote a vindication for the rights of woman which said that women, then thought to be naturally inferior, only seemed this way because of a lack of education
• in her other works, she also attacks aristocracy, the patriarchy, slavery, and the church of england
• while most feminists of the time agreed with a lot of what she wrote, they found her personal life too wild and liberal and “passionate”
• she once tried to woo a married man/convince him to run away with her and he was all “but i’m married” so wollstonecraft asked his wife if she wanted to come along too and be in a polyamorous relationship (the wife said no)
• she was passionately anti-marriage, but when she did get married it was to famous feminist anarchist william godwin (who was also anti-marriage), and they only married because she was pregnant and they wanted their child to have a better life/have the rights of a legitimate child
• that child was mary shelley, author of frankenstein and inventor of science fiction