Mary Wollstonecraft's Breakdow Ambition

Author Eleanor Flexner wrote a biography on Mary Wollstonecraft. “The woman who first effectively challenged the age-old image of her sex as lesser and subservient human beings lived a short and stormy life in the late-eighteenth-century England”, Flexner wrote. Wollstonecraft lived a short life dying at the age of thirty-eight in 1797 only five years after she published her first and only book. In 1792, Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Right of Woman, which sparked the world. Her book was influential since it was the period of social change first the American colonies could not stand to be under Britain and then the roar of the French Revolution. Her voice was the only audible idea which raised to assert that women and men alike had an inalienable right to freedom, that they too were human beings (Flexner). Mary Wollstonecraft courageously challenged social norms and started the …show more content…
Her grandfather, Edward Wollstonecraft wanted a better life and to be a “gentleman”. He bought land and built houses leasing them to tenants that worked at silk-weaver companies, which became the family’s chief source of income. Edward’s eldest named Edward John married an Irish woman and had their first child named Edward Bland, next following was a baby girl named Mary Wollstonecraft. The family moved around frequently. Edward John (Mary Wollstonecraft’s father) up and left his trade and became a farmer, now there could be two reasons as to why he left: silk- weaving having hard times or he followed in his father’s footsteps and wanted better, as well. But, Mary Wollstonecraft saw different; she saw her father as abusive and irresponsible and risky like turning into a farmer. After her mother’s death in 1780, she earn her own and in 1784 her sister and best friend, Fanny, started a school. Because she had teaching experience, Wollstonecraft wrote the pamphlet Thoughts on the Education of Daughters in