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Mary Wollstonecraft, 18th century Anglo-Irish writer and feminist. A writer with radical political views on a range of issues fincluding women's rights, education, slavery and the treatment of the poor, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the wife of the writer William Godwin and mother of the author Mary Shelley.