Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) – A Pioneering Feminist in Ireland

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) – A Pioneering Feminist in Ireland

Before she became one of the founding philosophers of feminism, the half-Irish Mary Wollstonecraft was governess to Viscount Kingsborough’s daughters at Mitchelstown Castle. Mary went on to marry  William Godwin, and so became mother to Mary Shelley, author of...