![]() ![]() ![]() It was in Wales she was first introduced to a much more radical thinking, by attending a radical intellectual salon. ![]() In 1784, she opened a school with her sister and a friend in Newington Green. In 1774, the family's financial situation forced them to move again, settling in Hoxton in London, before moving again two years later to Laugharne, Wales where her mother died in 1782. This was the only formal schooling she would receive. Born the eldest daughter of Elizabeth Dixon and Edward Wollstonecraft, her family moved from her birthplace when she was nine to a farm in Beverly at which time she was enrolled at the local school, learning to read and write. She was a 18th century English author, who proved to be one of the earliest supporters of the Women's Rights movement. ![]()
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