The ideas in her book were truly revolutionary at the time and caused tremendous controversy. The key, she purports, is educational reform, giving women access to the same educational opportunities as men. Instead, she states that society breeds "gentle domestic brutes” and that a confined existence makes women frustrated and transforms them into tyrants over their children and servants. In the work, she clearly abhors prevailing notions that women are helpless adornments of a household. Within four years, she published her most famous work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). When Johnson launched the Analytical Review in 1788, Mary became a regular contributor. Three years later, she returned to London and became a translator and an adviser to Joseph Johnson, a noted publisher of radical texts. Spending her time there to mourn and recover, she eventually found she was not suited for domestic work. When her friend Fanny died in 1785, Wollstonecraft took a position as governess for the Kingsborough family in Ireland. From her experiences teaching, Wollstonecraft wrote the pamphlet Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787). In 1784, Mary, her sister Eliza and her best friend, Fanny, established a school in Newington Green. Perturbed by the actions of her father and by her mother’s death in 1780, Wollstonecraft set out to earn her own livelihood. Her father was abusive and spent his somewhat sizable fortune on a series of unsuccessful ventures in farming. Wollstonecraft was born on April 27, 1759, in Spitalfields, London. She died 10 days after her second daughter, Mary, was born. While working as a translator to Joseph Johnson, a publisher of radical texts, she published her most famous work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Combining the spirited rhetoric of a philosophical treatise with a narrative as gripping as any gothic fiction, this is the book that laid the groundwork for modern feminism.Brought up by an abusive father, Mary Wollstonecraft left home and dedicated herself to a life of writing. Inspired by the writings of Rousseau and William Godwin, her husband and editor, Wollstonecraft was determined to depict "the misery and oppression, particular to women, that arise out of the partial laws and customs of society." The tale of a woman locked up in an asylum by her abusive husband, Maria dramatizes the effects of the era's draconian English marriage laws. In the posthumously published Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman, Wollstonecraft drew upon similar reasoning, presented in a fictional framework to illustrate the grim reality of a woman's life in the eighteenth century. In her classic manifesto A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, pioneer feminist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) embraced an egalitarian social philosophy as the basis for the creation and preservation of equal rights and opportunities for women.
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