What was the feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft's relation to Godwin?
Godwin's niece
Godwin's cousin
Godwin's first wife
Godwin's sister
Answer
Mary Wollstonecraft was the first wife of William Godwin, the philosopher and writer who is most famous for his work Political Justice. Wollstonecraft was a radical feminist who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792. Godwin and Wollstonecraft were married in 1797 and had a daughter, Mary Shelley, who later became the author of Frankenstein. Wollstonecraft died in 1797 after giving birth to her second child.
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