Mary Wollstonecraft was born on the 27th of April, 1759. Her father a quick-tempered and unsettled man, capable of beating wife, or child, or dog was the son of a manufacturer who made money in Spitalfields, when Spitalfields was prosperous. Her mother was a rigorous Irishwoman, of the Dixons of Ballyshannon. Edward John Wollstonecraft of whose children, besides Mary, the second child, three sons and two daughters lived to be men and women in course of the got rid of a