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In "An Original Story of True Life" (1788), she advocated education to equip children with the traits of the emerging middle class: self-discipline, honesty, thrift, and contentment. Influenced by the ideas of John Locke, an important educational philosopher in the 17th century, Wollstonecraft also specifically emphasized the importance of children receiving rational education in two books. However, the emphasis on religious belief and innate sensibility distinguishes their work and connects her work to discussions of sensibility that were popular at the end of the 18th century. The book also promoted women's education - a controversial topic at the time: a topic that would continue throughout her writing career and culminated in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Wollstonecraft believed that well-educated women would be able to make good wives and mothers and ultimately contribute to their country. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), the founder of modern feminism. Mary was born at a time when the Enlightenment was shining, the Romantic movement followed, and the American Revolution and the French Revolution echoed each other. This is an era of turmoil, active thinking, the spirit of humanism continues to flourish, individual rights are increasingly respected, and the consciousness of the subject is increasingly awakened. These ideas that were compatible with the rise of capitalism were widely spread in European and American societies, and the concepts of "liberty, equality, and fraternity" became everyone's common pursuit, at least in words. It was under the influence and influence of the atmosphere of this era that Mary gradually grew into a feminist.
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