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Mary Wollstonecraft — was a moral and political philosopher whose analysis of the condition of women in modern society retains much of its original radicalism.

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One of the reasons her pronouncements on the subject remain challenging is that her reflections on the status of the female sex were part of an attempt to come to a comprehensive understanding of human relations within a civilization increasingly governed by acquisitiveness and consumption. Her first publication was on the education of daughters; she went on to write about politics, history and various aspects of philosophy in a number of different genres that included critical reviews, translations, pamphlets, and novels.

Best known for her Vindication of the Rights of Woman , her influence went beyond the substantial contribution to feminism for which she is mostly remembered and extended to shaping the art of travel writing as a literary genre; through her account of her journey through Scandinavia as well as her writings on women and thoughts on the imagination, she had an impact on the Romantic movement.

Her paternal grandfather was a successful master weaver who left a sizeable legacy, but her father, Edward John, mismanaged his share of the inheritance. He tried to establish himself as a gentleman farmer in Epping. Her published writings show her to have acquired a true command of the Bible and a good knowledge of the works of several of the most famous Ancient philosophers.

The latter is partly explained through her personal acquaintance with Thomas Taylor, famed for his translations of Plato Tomaselli Through her own writing for the Analytical Review she was to become widely read in the literature of her period. Initially, the nature and extent of her reading was partly owed to the friendship shown to her in her youth by a retired clergyman and his wife.

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Nevertheless, as a woman from an impecunious family, her prospects were very limited. In , she was engaged as a companion to a Mrs Dawson and lived at Bath. She returned home to nurse her ailing mother in the latter part of In the winter of , Mary left them in order to attend to her sister Eliza and her newly born daughter.

By February of that year, the two sisters had already been planning to establish a school with Fanny Blood.