The idea was to prepare adolescent girls for their future roles as wives, mothers, and proper middle-class ladies.
She was sent to a local country school for girls, where the courses were skewed toward housekeeping arts like sewing and gardening. This would be the longest time that Wollstonecraft ever lived in one place in her life. The Wollstonecrafts lived in Yorkshire from 1768 to 1774, on a farm called Walkington in the Wolds. The pressures led Wollstonecraft's father into alcoholism, and the related abuse he inflicted upon his wife, Elizabeth, had a profound impact on their daughter and her attitudes toward marriage. Because of this, the family moved several times when Wollstonecraft was a child, and kept growing in size despite their economic hardships. He attempted to establish himself as a gentleman farmer, but nearly all of his ventures failed. Her grandfather had made a fortune as a master weaver in London and through profitable real estate investments as well, but Wollstonecraft's father, Edward, squandered much of that inheritance. Wollstonecraft was born on April 27, 1759, in Hoxton, near London, England, as the second of seven children in the family. She died several days after giving birth to her daughter, the novelist Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Her achievements and renown, however, could not save her from the most dangerous of all social ills for women in her day-that of childbirth and its attendant medical risks. The book is considered the first written document of the modern feminist movement, and in it Wollstonecraft argued in favor of full legal, social, and economic rights for women. English writer Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) and her most famous work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, both achieved immense notoriety in Georgian England of the 1790s.
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