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Wollstonecraft's genius

Many critics and historians believe that Wollstonecraft's genius is to be sought in her life. According to another great British feminist, Virginia Woolf, her genius is to be found in the fact that from the very beginning, her life was an experimental life. She was the daughter of an idle drunkard and she immediately learned how to live alone by choosing one of the most impossible professions for that time: the writer.

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