Mary Wollstonecraft: A Very Short Introduction discusses the life and legacy of Mary Wollstonecraft, who was widely hailed as the mother of modern feminism. It highlights the significance of her work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. However, Wollstonecraft’s achievement as a thinker and writer reaches far beyond the text as she wrote about different topics and in a range of literary forms, some of which she created herself. The VSI then provides an overview of the conditions for Wollstonecraft’s emergence as a feminist and her subsequent reception. It also elaborates on Wollstonecraft’s status as an educator, a political thinker, and a romantic.