![]() ![]() He attempted to establish himself as a gentleman farmer, but nearly all of his ventures failed. Her grandfather had made a fortune as a master weaver in London and through profitable real estate investments as well, but Wollstonecraft's father, Edward, squandered much of that inheritance. Wollstonecraft was born on April 27, 1759, in Hoxton, near London, England, as the second of seven children in the family. She died several days after giving birth to her daughter, the novelist Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Her achievements and renown, however, could not save her from the most dangerous of all social ills for women in her day-that of childbirth and its attendant medical risks. The book is considered the first written document of the modern feminist movement, and in it Wollstonecraft argued in favor of full legal, social, and economic rights for women. ![]() English writer Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) and her most famous work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, both achieved immense notoriety in Georgian England of the 1790s. ![]()
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