Mary wollstonecraft biography for kids

Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a Britishwriter. She was born in Spitalfields, a daughter of a rich farmer who inherited his fortune.

Her father was known because he was sometimes violent towards her, her four siblings, and their mother when his farms failed. Mary Wollstonecraft was the second oldest child in her family. She was the oldest female child.

She left home at the age of nineteen to work and become independent.

Working in the English city of Bath, Somerset, she developed a disliking for the upper class and their social lives.

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In 1784 she experienced the near death of her sister Eliza who was also the victim of abuse at the hands of her husband. She escaped with her sister to London to preserve her life. Soon after, her good friend Fanny Blood, died of complications in childbirth.

Wollstonecraft suffered depression following this and being in financial straits, she began to write her first book Thoughts on the Educat