A Vindication of the Rights of Women

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This is the name of the biography that ruined her reputation.

"Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman"

"With respect to women, when they receive a careful ______________, they are either made fine ladies, brimful of sensibility, and teeming with capricious fancies, or mere notable women."

Education

Mary Wollstonecraft believes the lack of this to be the key to keeping women subservient.

Education

This is the name of her absentee father.

Edward John Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft lived in this country

England

Her protest against women's submissiveness was supported by the ideals of this ideological period of change.

Enlightenment

Mary Wollstonecraft argues that women deserve this with men.

Equality

Mary Wollstonecraft's daughter wrote this book.

Frankenstein

She was inspired to write "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" by this revolution.

French Revolution

"Would men but generously snap our chains and be content with rational fellowship instead of slavish __________, they would find us [...] better citizens."

obedience

Mary Wollstonecraft argues that a woman looses all potential over the course of her life due to her ____________.

Occupations

Mary Wollstonecraft was inspired by this French woman who wrote "Declaration of the Rights of Woman".

Olympe de Gouges

Mary Wollstonecraft believes that men are superior in this way, but that it should not be used as an agent to suppress women.

Physically

Mary Wollstonecraft argues that men use this to justify their prejudices, leading to false conclusions.

Reason

Mary Wollstonecraft was married to this fellow radical.

William Goodwin

Mary Wollstonecraft was born in this year.

1759

"A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" was published in this year.

1792

Mary Wollstonecraft died in this year.

1797

Mary Wollstonecraft married in this year.

1797

Wollstonecraft's widower published a memoir of her in this year.

1798

These are the three jobs which were respectable for high- and middle-class women during this period.

Authors, lady's companions, and teachers

"My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual ___________, unable to stand alone."

Childhood

"[...] for the reading of __________ will scarcely be more useful than the study of romances."

History

Mary Wollstonecraft published under her own name, following in the steps of this former wife of Henry VIII.

Katherine Parr

"Women [...] all want to be ________."

Ladies


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