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Location: St Peter's Churchyard, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.
Cause of death: Septicemia following childbirth
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English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason.  |
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Wollstonecraft was married to the philosopher and author William Godwin. Wollstonecraft died at the age of 38, eleven days after giving birth to her second daughter, leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts. This daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, became an accomplished writer herself, as Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. She was buried in London at Old Saint Pancras Churchyard, and in 1851, her remains were moved by her grandson, Percy Florence Shelley, to his family tomb in St Peter's Church, Bournemouth.
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