Mary: A Fiction

This story is in essence the novelization of Wollstonecraft's ultimate work Vindication of the Rights of Women. It follows a girl who grows up in a moderately wealthy English family in 18th century trying to find love and individuality in a time when such concepts are incomprehensible to society. Mary the main character follows life and love through a turbulent series of ups and downs while trying to remain true to herself. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a British feminist writer and philosopher. She is best known for her treatise A Vindication for the Rights of Women which puts forth that women are not naturally inferior to men and it is their lack of education that leads them to appear so.