Mary Wollstonecraft
1759–1797 · Person
English writer and proto-feminist; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792); mother of Mary Shelley.
On these timelines: Women in history, England, Arts and Thoughts, People, Master
More from Women in history
- Second-wave feminism (1963)
- US women win the vote (19th Amendment) (1920)
- Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
- Indira Gandhi (1917)
- The Feminine Mystique published (1963)
- Susan B. Anthony (1820)
- Rosa Parks (1913)
- Ada Lovelace (1815)
Around 1759
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)