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Wollstonecraft

noun

English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women; mother of Mary Shelley (1759-1797). Synonyms: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.

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... before her, to the standard of a man's acquirements. Only one art had she been denied, she must not learn the violin - the thought was too monstrous even for the Austins; and indeed it would seem as if that tide of reform which we may date from the days of Mary Wollstonecraft had in some degree even receded; for though Miss Austin was suffered to learn Greek, the accomplishment was kept secret like a piece of guilt. But whether this stealth was caused by a backward movement in public thought since the time of Edward Barron, or by the ...

— Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin • Robert Louis Stevenson

... Mrs. Wheeler, a strong-minded, clever woman, the Mary Wollstonecraft of her day, on hearing that I had been asked to the "Hermitage" of Queen-Square Place by Mr. Bentham,—"Ah, you have no idea of what is before you! I ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 • Various

... Derrick Smith, at the Mary Wollstonecraft Club, will always be glad to send you any literature ...

— The Testing of Diana Mallory • Mrs. Humphry Ward

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