A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Hero Classics)

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One of the first works published on feminist philosophy, in response to the theorists of the time that argued that education was not a place for women, Wollstonescraft rebukes such oppressing stances, championing the idea of empowering women in education, politics, and society rather than serving as decorative additions to their husbands.

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Mary Wollstonecraft was born in 1759 in Spitalfields, London. She is the author of several feminist literature such as Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787), Mary (1788), and her most famous, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). Wollstonecraft gave birth to two daughters, Fanny Imlay and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein). Her early death at 38 was due to septicaemia. She left behind many unfinished manuscripts.