![]() But her book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), which expanded on the ideas she had addressed in her pamphlet, added to her fame and is still widely read. This publication made her instantly famous. Woll- stonecraft responded with a pamphlet, A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), which attacked the aristocracy. The excitement generated first by the American (1776-1783) and then by the French (1789-1799) revolutions caused Wollstonecraft to react against the conservative views of Edmund Burke (1729-1797), an Irish statesman who served in the House of Commons of Great Britain and wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), a defense of constitutional monarchy, aristocracy, and the Church of England. ![]() She became well known to some of the most important literary and political figures of the age. She became a govern- ess, then a teacher, and finally a writer. She grew up in dif- ficult circumstances and had to earn her own living at an early age. ![]() MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Corbis A woman far ahead of her time, MARY WOLL- STONECRAFT (1759-1797) became one of the first English feminists. ![]()
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