Mary Wollstonecraft
This person is regarded as a founder of feminist philosophy. In addition to her non-fiction writing, she was a novelist.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
This person was a highly-respected 18th century philosopher, writer, and composer who greatly influenced the French Revolution and Enlightenment.
Edmund Burke
This person was a politician, author, political theorist, and philosopher, who opposed the French Revolution. In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Wollstonecraft responds to his Reflections on the Revolution in France.
John Milton
The poet who is best known for Paradise Lost. Wollstonecraft criticized his views on women.
Dr. Gregory
This person was a physician, medical writer, and moralist who wrote A Father's Legacy to His Daughters.
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