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Sep.10 Mary Wollstonecraft



Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wikipedia
BornApril 27, 1759, Spitalfields
NationalityBritish
SpouseWilliam Godwin (m. 1797–1797)

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

#OnThisDay in 1797 Mary Wollstonecraft passed away in England. She had given birth on August 30, 1797 to a daughter, christened Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin—the future Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. When Wollstonecraft failed to expel the placenta, her physician Dr. Poignand pulled it out with his bare hands, thereby introducing the infection that caused the puerperal fever that killed her several days later.
"Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison."
#MaryWollstonecraft, pioneer feminist & author in 1792 of the celebrated "Vindication of the Rights of Women" died #onthisday 1797. Her death, of septicaemia, followed the birth 11 days earlier of her daughter Mary - who as #MaryShelley went on to write #Frankenstein20 years later.

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