![]() ![]() Following her collaboration with Johnson, Wollstonecraft edited Female Writer, publishing it under a male pseudonym, and worked on several translations. After the writer left her job as the governess to the Kingsboroughs in Ireland, Johnson hired her to write for his Analytical Review. He published Wollstonecraft’s Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, Mary A Fiction and Original Stories. Two years later she met Joseph Johnson, the official publisher of Rational Dissent, a reformist group. Wollstonecraft and her sisters opened a school for girls in 1784 in north London. In 1786 she wrote her first book Thoughts on the Education of Daughters. As a child, she opposed gender roles by protecting her mother from her father’s violence, caring for her sister who suffered from post-natal depression, and convincing her to leave her husband.Ĭareer: Due to the scarcity of job alternatives for women in the eighteenth century, she worked in several different jobs as a teacher, governess and needle-worker. She moved several times in her childhood and lived in Epping, Essex, Yorkshire and London. 1797) – National Portrait Galleryĭate of birth/death: 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797Įarly life: Born in Spitalfields, London, Mary Wollstonecraft was the second of seven children. ![]()
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