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Mary Wollstonecraft

noun

English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women; mother of Mary Shelley (1759-1797). Synonyms: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Wollstonecraft.

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... her to return to school. Shelley was then only nineteen and very changeable. He would make such a sudden departure from a place where he had vowed "to live forever," that specially invited guests sometimes came to find him gone. He soon fell in love with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, the brilliant woman who later wrote the weird romance Frankenstein, and he married her after Harriet Shelley had drowned herself. These acts alienated his family and forced him to forfeit his right ...

— Halleck's New English Literature • Reuben P. Halleck

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Words linked to "Mary Wollstonecraft" : women's rightist, libber, author, women's liberationist, writer, feminist