Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights. She wrote novels, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book and a children's book. Her best known work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), argues that women only appear less capable than men because they are denied an education. She died in 1797 days after giving birth to her daughter Mary, who later wrote Frankenstein.