Short answers, pulled from the story.
Mary Wollstonecraft was born on the 27th of April 1759 in Spitalfields, London. She grew up in a family that experienced constant instability and financial ruin due to her father squandering his inheritance.
Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Men in response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France published on the 1st of November 1790. She was angered by Burke's dismissal of the women who marched on Versailles and his idealized portrait of Marie Antoinette.
Mary Wollstonecraft died of septicaemia on the 10th of September 1797 following an infection from childbed fever after giving birth to her second daughter. Her death occurred shortly after the birth of her daughter Mary on the 30th of August 1797.
Mary Wollstonecraft's reputation was damaged after her death because William Godwin published his Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman in January 1798. The memoir revealed her illegitimate children, love affairs, and suicide attempts, which shocked Victorian readers and led to vicious satires.
Mary Wollstonecraft's work was rediscovered by the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom during the late 19th century. Millicent Garrett Fawcett wrote the introduction to the centenary edition of the Rights of Woman in 1898, claiming Wollstonecraft as the foremother of the struggle for the vote.