Wollstonecraft
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Wollstonecraft may refer to:
- Mary WollstonecraftMary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth-century British 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...
(1759–1797), English author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyMary ShelleyMary Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus . She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley...
(1797–1851), author of Frankenstein, daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft - Edward WollstonecraftEdward WollstonecraftEdward Wollstonecraft was a successful businessman in early colonial Australia. He was the nephew of the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and cousin to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of Frankenstein....
, 19th-century merchant and explorer, nephew of Mary Wollstonecraft - Wollstonecraft, New South WalesWollstonecraft, New South WalesWollstonecraft is a harbourside suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Wollstonecraft is located 4 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of North Sydney Council.-History:...
, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, named after Edward