2-634-268 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Mary Wollstonecraft', c1797. Mary Wollstonecraft, 18th century English teacher, writer and feminist. A writer with radical political views on a range of issues fincluding women's rights, education, slavery and the treatment of the poor, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the wife of the writer William Godwin and mother of the author Mary Shelley. Painting held at the National Portrait Gallery, London. From The Connoisseur Vol. LXXVI. [The Connoisseur, London, 1926]