How Did Mary Wollstonecraft Become A Revolutionary Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft was a constitutional Anglo-Irish philosopher and a liberal feminist author. She was the second of seven children, while being born in London. Her father, Edward John Wollstonecraft was an alcoholic that was abusive towards Mary and her Mother. What had gone on in her home had desired her more to proceed to escape her family and force her own way throughout the world. Mary helped her sister, Eliza escape a miserable marriage by hiding her from a cruel husband until a legal divorce was arranged. Although Mary never got a proper education, but that never stopped her from becoming a very successful teacher, governess and “lady’s companion” all at the age of nineteen, while being able to support herself. Becoming a teacher helped Mary to go on and create a school, Newington Green, with her sister, Eliza, and her best friend, Franny.
After living in Ireland for three years …show more content…
Many people called her the first feminist whose pot-stirring writing caused a major commotion. Mary wrote a number of books, her most known works being Frankenstein. Mary felt it was wrong how women were generally treated as nothing more than pretty, servile sex object for their husbands. She had believed it was wrong how women were expected to stay home all day and be, essentially, “convenient domestic slaves” wasting their talents and leading them to become mothers and wives forcibly, rather than by choice. Mary’s own somewhat aimless education was not entirely abnormal for someone of her sex and position, nor was it particularly
After living in Ireland for three years …show more content…
Many people called her the first feminist whose pot-stirring writing caused a major commotion. Mary wrote a number of books, her most known works being Frankenstein. Mary felt it was wrong how women were generally treated as nothing more than pretty, servile sex object for their husbands. She had believed it was wrong how women were expected to stay home all day and be, essentially, “convenient domestic slaves” wasting their talents and leading them to become mothers and wives forcibly, rather than by choice. Mary’s own somewhat aimless education was not entirely abnormal for someone of her sex and position, nor was it particularly