Vindication+of+womens+rights

=Mary Wollstonecraft= =Mary, or the Wrongs of Woman= _ Mary Wollstonecraft was born in Spitafields, England in 1759. Growing up, she recieved a rather poor education. Her family's income gradually decreased and became unstable. The family moved various times during Mary's youth. The financial problem became so unstable that Mary's father forced her to turn over money that would have been used for inheritance at an older age. Mary's father was a violent man and as a common activity would get drunk and beat his wife. Mary would try to protect her mother and attempted to play a maternal role for her sisters as well. At the age of 18, Mary left home for good. Mary accepted a job as a lady's companion to Sarah Dawson, a widow living in Bath. The two women, however, did not get along well. This inspired Mary to describe her experience and struggles through her position in //Thoughts on the Education of Daughters//. In 1780, Mary's mother was slowly dying. After her death, Mary moved in with a friend and realized that she was interested in traditional feminine values. In 1784, at the age of twenty four, Mary and her friend opened up a school for girls at Newington Green, a dissenting community. She became a governess to the children of an aristocratic family on their estate in Ireland, however, this didn't last long due to the sudden illness of her friend. After her friends death, Mary was deeply effected and turned her emotions into writing in her first novel, //Mary; A fiction. (1788)// By 1787, Mary Wollenstonecraft returned to London. She started working for Joseph Johnson, a progressive publisher. Mary spent most of her time working in the shop, writing and translating, eating meals, and meeting various intellectuals and progressive thinkers. Mary made a group of friends who had daily discussions about current political affairs. She wrote a small story named //Thoughts on the Education of Daughters//. With the topic of the French Revolution, this story brought a lot of attention to Mary. Many European radicals accepted the French Revolution. The principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity were viewed as a new idea about the struggle against aristocracy and for democratic society.

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Many of Mary Wollenstonecrafts ideas and themes were integrated into the work of her daughters novel, Frankenstein. Similiar ideas were conveyed in Frankenstein leading us to believe these works were closely related.

The relevent themems include:

-Communication betweens sexes -Economic independence -Freedom to express desires -Single parents -Parents as caregivers -Midwiferey (parental bonding) -Familial responsibilities -Child questions anwered truthfully -Sex education -Right action come from within- from an educated capacity to make judgments

Mary Shelley's work contains a number of quotes that directly relate to each topic...