... prominent male figure in her life, exude violence and injustice towards women. Wollstonecraft often had to protect her mother from the drunken frenzy of her father, the son of a master weaver from London who tried unsuccessfully to set himself up as a gentleman farmer1. Many other eighteenth-century girls had to endure similar injustices and hardships. It was relevant that ... embraced religion with new views surrounding a woman's position and drew attention to the ratification of women's rights in the church. Wollstonecraft embraced a religion that combined faith with reason, morality ...

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