Mary Wollstonecraft died on 10 September 1797 in Somers Town, aged 38. An English writer and philosopher, Wollstonecraft is regarded as one of the founding thinkers of feminism. Her book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman argued that women appear inferior only because they are denied education, and that society would benefit from treating them as rational beings. She had earlier defended the French Revolution against Edmund Burke in A Vindication of the Rights of Men, and she wrote on education, travel and fiction. Her life was unconventional for her time, and she died days after giving birth to her daughter Mary, later the author of Frankenstein.
Before and after
- 22 March 1797Birth of Wilhelm I
- July 1797Publication of Poland Is Not Yet Lost
- from 22 July 1797 to 25 July 1797Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
- 30 August 1797Birth of Mary Shelley
- 10 September 1797Death of Mary Wollstonecraft
- 18 October 1797Treaty of Campo Formio
- 13 December 1797Birth of Heinrich Heine
- 1798Discovery of beryllium
- 19 January 1798Birth of Auguste Comte
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- 10 August 1793Construction of Louvre Museum
- 1 November 1800Construction of White House
- 17 November 1869Construction of Suez Canal
- 1886Statue of Liberty
- 1894Radio
- c. 1900sRise of modernism
The era
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