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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Mary Wollstonecraft
Born: April 27, 1759
Died: September 10, 1797 (aged 38)
Bio: Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. 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.
Known for:
- Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
- A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)
- Mary: A Fiction (1788)
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