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Mary Wollstonecraft
 
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Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) was an educator and an author. She wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1791 and it was published in 1792. Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and other women's rights leader's viewed the writings of Wollstonecraft as one of the first attempts by women to assert their equality.

 
Two-story red brick house where Thomas and Mary Ann M'Clitnock lived.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton  

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Did you know that Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the organizers of the 1848 Seneca Falls First Women's Rights Convention? She gave her most famous speech in 1892. Read it now.
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