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Essay on Mary Wollstone Craft
Abstract
The purpose of this report is to write about Mary Wollstonecraft. This paper provides a complete detailed analysis of her life, her work including the examples of her most famous and influential work published, her legacy and the influence she had on the feminist politics. This paper is written in APA format with 3 supportive references.
Her life
Jones in his book “"Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindications and their Political Tradition” excellently explains the biography of Mary by writing that “Mary Wollstonecraft was born on April 27, 1759 in Spitalfields, London, and died on September 10, 1797, from complications that was due to the birth of her baby. Wollstonecraft had a significant but tragically brief career of nine years. In this time span she wrote her most famous “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” as well as a full range of work across disciplinary boundaries separating philosophy, letters, education, advice, politics, history, religion, sexuality, and feminism itself.”(Jones, 2002)
Mary Wollstonecraft was the second child of seven, and the eldest daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Wollstonecraft. Mary’s parents shared preference for her older brother (Jones, 2002), which contributed to her loss of economic and class status as a young woman and even gave her less confidence and support which she needed as a women from her family due to the discrimination. (Franklin, 2004). Her grandfather was an extremely wealthy silk merchant who left 10,000 pounds to her father, but Mary’s father tried to distance himself from the trade and set up as a gentleman farmer first in Essex, and then near Beverley in Yorkshire (Franklin, 2004). In less than four years, Edward’s farm in Essex failed. The failure drove Edward’s career across England and Wales, to poorer and more remote farms, eventually reducing his inheritance and eventually making his children itinerant (Todd, 2000)....
