Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. She is best known for her 1792 treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. She suggested that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason. Wollstonecraft was a pioneer of what is now known as feminism, and her ideas influenced both the French Revolution and the development of feminist thought. She wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wollstonecraft died 11 days after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Shelley, who would go on to write Frankenstein.
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