Because of this situation, Wollstonecraft left home at 17, quickly learning how to survive through adaptability and independence. As a child, she regularly defended her mother against the violence of her drunken father, an abusive man who wasted away a small fortune in gambling and alcohol. Consequently, the family became financially unstable and they were frequently forced to move during Wollstonecraft’s youth. Wollstonecraft faced constant pressures to save her family. She was the second of the seven children of Elizabeth Dixon and Edward John Wollstonecraft. Although her family had a comfortable income when she was a child, her father gradually squandered it on speculative projects. Wollstonecraft was born in April 1759 in Spitalfields, London. While not as well-known today as the French philosopher Jean-Jacque Rousseau (1712-1778), the English writer Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) deserves a place among other major enlightenment thinkers involved in the debate about the “women’s question.” Her most important contribution was A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, published in 1792.
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