Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Women

Miller offers a concise biography of Mary Wollstonecraft, the eighteenth-century British philosopher whose seminal treatise *A Vindication of the Rights of Woman* demanded equal education and civil rights for women. The account follows her turbulent life from her struggling family and early literary ambitions to her controversial romance with William Godwin and her tragic death just as she battles the rigid social conventions of her time. By weaving together personal turmoil and intellectual fervor, the book shows how Wollstonecraft's arguments sparked a conversation that would echo far beyond her era, influencing later reformers on both sides of the Atlantic.