  urlLink Mary Wollstonecraft I'm reading this book I found in the kiddie section of the library. I am about a third of the way through. I will have to read one her works next; I'm finding her politics very interesting. Anyway - Wollstonecraft is my woman of the day!
Mary Wollstonecraft is probably best known as the mother of Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein ) and for writing urlLink The Vindication of the Rights of Women . Ms. Wollstonecraft was raised in a society where married women were treated as property and girls learned to be passive and quiet. Her first book was Thoughts on the Education of Girls , where she espoused her views on how girls should be taught and encouraged to learn.
Her life was not typical - she stayed single for a large part of her life and had a baby out-of-wedlock. She did eventually get married, and died after having her second child, Mary, in 1797. It is really hard to summarize such an amazing woman's life and accomplishments in a blog entry! For more information, you can read a bio urlLink here or urlLink here . Hooray for free-thinking women! 
