A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, originally published in 1792, written by Mary Wollstonecraft an eighteenth-century British writer, advocate for women's rights, and a philosopher. Mary's career included writing novels, treaties, a travel narrative, a conduct book, a history of the French Revolution, and a children's book. "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy, and a display of reasonings why women deserve the same fundamental rights as men.