Mary Shelley’s mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was a writer who was strongly influenced by Thomas Paine, who was a radical during the 1770s. Mary Wollstonecraft was a feminast who argued that women deserved equal rights. When she moved to London in the late 1780s, she became an admired professional writer and editor who wrote about the rights of women and children. In 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote an essay "A Vindication of the Rights of Men", which was based on her reaction to the French Revolution. That essay influenced her most famous feminist social study that was written two years later, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman".



-Gabbi Firrincieli