Who dated Mary Wollstonecraft?

Mary Wollstonecraft (, also UK: ; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights. Until the late twentieth century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional (at the time) personal relationships, received more attention than her writing. Wollstonecraft is regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, and feminists often cite both her life and her works as important influences.

During her brief career she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men but appeared to be only because they lack education. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason.

After two ill-fated affairs, with Henry Fuseli and Gilbert Imlay (by whom she had a daughter, Fanny Imlay), Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin, one of the forefathers of the anarchist movement. Wollstonecraft died at the age of 38 leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts. She died 11 days after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Shelley, who became an accomplished writer and the author of Frankenstein.

Wollstonecraft's widower published a Memoir (1798) of her life, revealing her unorthodox lifestyle, which inadvertently destroyed her reputation for almost a century. However, with the emergence of the feminist movement at the turn of the twentieth century, Wollstonecraft's advocacy of women's equality and critiques of conventional femininity became increasingly important.

Gilbert Imlay (9 de febrero de 1754-20 de noviembre de 1828) fue oficial en la Guerra de Independencia de los Estados Unidos, hombre de negocios y escritor. Tuvo una breve relación sentimental con Mary Wollstonecraft, como resultado de la cual tuvieron una hija, Fanny Imlay.

Después de la Guerra de la Independencia, Imlay se estableció en Kentucky donde escribió A Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America (que podría traducirse como "descripción topográfica del territorio occidental de América del Norte"). Fue finalmente publicado en Londres en 1792. También probó a escribir novelas, publicando en 1793 The Emigrants. Imlay dejó los Estados Unidos en 1786 para ir a Londres, donde se convirtió en especulador y comerciante. En 1793, durante la Revolución francesa, fue un representante diplomático de los Estados Unidos en Francia mientras al mismo tiempo perseguía sus propios intereses económicos. Por aquel entonces los británicos bloqueaban los puertos franceses y él sacó provecho saltándose ese bloqueo. Cuando en 1794 sus negocios y su relación con Wollstonecraft finalizaron, volvió a Inglaterra.