![]() ![]() ![]() Pre-Enlightenment people generally kept to their place in the ancient scheme of things, but Wollstonecraft was at the heart of this revolutionary era: everything was up for grabs. And although her family didn’t believe in educating girls, they didn’t seem to mind living off her earnings once she managed to educate herself. Onwards to Yorkshire, and Wales, and “each farm he took was poorer and remoter than the last.” Being forced to sit in silence for hours on end, and trying to defend her mother from the alcohol-fuelled violence of her father - these were the cornerstones of Wollstonecraft’s young life, and they sparked her lifelong rage against injustice.ĭespite becoming a writer of international renown, Wollstonecraft remained economically precarious for the rest of her life. His son, Mary Wollstonecraft’s father, moved his family first to Epping Forest and then Barking in a doomed attempt at being a gentleman farmer. Grandpa Wollstonecraft was a well-to-do handkerchief maker, but his wealth was gradually squandered. ![]() She was born in Spitalfields, in a house on Primrose Street that has long since been demolished, the second of seven kids in a downwardly-mobile family. Mary Wollstonecraft was also the punk of the British Enlightenment, a fearless advocate of human rights and a daredevil in her personal life. Somewhere beneath the shiny corporate blocks of Liverpool Street is the birthplace of the foremother of feminism. ![]()
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