Short answers, pulled from the story.
Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and philosopher who lived from the 27th of April 1759 to the 10th of September 1797. She is regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers and is best known for advocating women's rights.
In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, published in 1792, Wollstonecraft argued that women are not naturally inferior to men but appear so only because they lack education. She maintained that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and that women deserve an education matching their position in society.
Mary Wollstonecraft died of septicaemia on the 10th of September 1797, eleven days after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary. The placenta had broken apart during the birth and became infected, a common and often fatal occurrence in the eighteenth century.
Mary Wollstonecraft had two daughters. Her first, Fanny Imlay, was born on the 14th of May 1794, fathered by the American adventurer Gilbert Imlay. Her second, Mary Shelley, became the author of Frankenstein.
Wollstonecraft's reputation was destroyed because her widower, William Godwin, published Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in January 1798. It revealed her illegitimate children, love affairs, and suicide attempts, which shocked readers and damaged her standing for nearly a century.
Wollstonecraft arrived in Paris in December 1792, about a month before Louis XVI was guillotined, and associated mostly with the moderate Girondins. She wrote An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution, published in 1794, and lived through the Reign of Terror as a British subject under suspicion.