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mary wollstonecraft was inspired by _____. the french revolution the springtime of peoples the industrial revolution the decembrist revolt

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Mary Wollstonecraft was inspired by the French Revolution.
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Mary Wollstonecraft was inspired by THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.

Mary Wollstonecraft was an English philosopher and writer. Considered a leading figure in the modern world, she wrote novels, stories, essays, a travelogue and a book of children's literature. As a woman of the eighteenth century, she was able to establish herself as a professional and independent writer in London, something unusual for the time. In her work Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792), she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but that they seem to be because they do not receive the same education, and that men and women should be treated as rational beings. With this work, she established the foundations of modern feminism and made her one of the most popular women in Europe at the time.

Wollstonecraft decided to travel to France to participate in the revolutionary events he had recently celebrated in his Vindication of the Rights of Man (1790). He wrote this work in response to the conservative critique of Edmund Burke to the French Revolution in Reflections on the French Revolution (1790). He pointed to these same ideas more indirectly in Vindication of the rights of women (1792), his most well-known and influential work.

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