Mary Wollstonecraft (Braden Fleming)

Hello everybody. My name is Mary Wollstonecraft and I was born on April 27, 1759. I strongly believe that women and men must have equal rights, however, it is only because of women's' lack of education that they appear to be below the status of men. As a child, my father abused my family and after my mother died in 1780 I left our home. I could not deal with the abuse from my father any longer. I had many jobs for example, I started a school, and was a governess for a little while, but when Joseph Johnson started the Analytical Review, I began to write. I loved being an author. It allowed me to express my beliefs and within the next four years after the Analytical Review began in 1788, I published many items of my best work including The Vindication of the Rights of Women which I wrote in 1792. Most of my writing involved women's rights because that is what I sought to fix through most of my career. I fell in love with a man named William Godwin and because of my pregnancy, we got married. In 1797, our daughter Mary was born however, I died ten days later. Even though I only lived for thirty-eight years, my work and beliefs will never die. I am proud of my successful life because I made it through tough times with my family, and I expressed what I believed in to make a difference.