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Mary Wollstonecraft, born April 27, 1759 in Spitalfields, died September 10, 1797 in London, was a British writer and feminist philosopher. During her short career, she wrote novels, essays, travel stories, a history of the French Revolution, a book about etiquette and a children's book. She is most famous for the Defense of Women's Rights, which argues that women are not inferior men of nature, but merely appear as such because they lack formal education.