Mary Wollstonecraft, married name Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, (born April 27, 1759, London, England-died September 10, 1797, London), English writer and passionate advocate of educational and social equality for women. In 1788 she began working as a translator for the London publisher James Johnson, who published several of her works, including the novel Mary: A Fiction (1788). The daughter of a farmer, Mary Wollstonecraft taught school and worked as a governess, experiences that inspired her views in Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787).

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