She was arguably one of the most influential writers and women rights activists of the eighteenth century.Wollstonecraft has been labelled by several scholars as one of the founders of modern feminism. She was known most commonly for her feminist theories but her political and moral thoughts gained fame only decades after her death. Mary was both famous and infamous for her radical thoughts and activity against the oppression of women. In September 1797, Mary gave birth to a second daughter after which her health declined and she died. She later married Godwin because of her pregnancy. After some time she stabilized herself and went to Somers town to live with William Godwin. In 1795, Imlay deserted Mary and left her emotionally unstable. Gilbert Imlay whom she married in La Havre in May 1794 and bore him a daughter, Fanny. She went to Paris and at a friend’s house met Capt. She wasn’t able to complete this book, which was published unfinished in 1798 after her death. After publication of her first work she started on her second work “Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman”, in this she wrote about the strong sexual desires of women and how it was wrong to suppress them. In 1792, Wollstonecraft published her famous work “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” in which she stressed that women’s lives under tyranny of domestic brutes frustrated them and made them violent towards their children and servants, it also advocated women’s rights to education and their equality to men in this regard. She made up for her lack of education by spending a lot of her time reading and reviewing and most of translating work gave her extensive knowledge of the works of Kant and Leibniz. Mary Wollstonecraft soon became a regular contributor of articles and radical writings to Johnson’s analytical review.
This acquainted her with most of London’s intellectual circles.
In 1788, Joseph Johnson provided her with an intellectual job as a translator and literary advisor. In 1787, she was dismissed from work after which she settled in George Street, London. She later became the governess to the daughter of Lord Kingsborough and spent most of her time in Ireland.
Her school soon became unstable and failed to provide her with income after which it collapsed. They established their first school at Newington Green where she started on her first set of works “Thoughts on the Education of Daughters”.
February 1784 was the beginning of many of Wollstonecraft ’s endeavors when she established her first school with the help of her sister Elisa and friend Fanny.
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