Brown Plaque: Mary Wollstonecraft

The brown plaque you are approaching in Euston honors Mary Wollstonecraft, an eighteenth-century thinker whose radical ideas laid the foundation for modern feminism. She is best known for her 1792 treatise, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which was one of the first political arguments to demand that women be educated and treated as the equals of men. She challenged the dominant belief of her time that women were naturally inferior, arguing instead that any perceived shortcomings were simply the result of a society that denied them the same intellectual opportunities as men.