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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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(1759–97) Writer and early feminist. Her Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) was an answer to Edmund *Burke's reflections on the *French Revolution. It was followed by her most famous work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), which was a passionate protest against society's low expectations of women and their limited opportunities. In 1797 she married the philosopher William Godwin and died only 11 days after giving birth to a daughter, the writer Mary *Shelley.
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