wollstonecraft was not only a writer, she was an early feminist and social campaigner. she wrote a children's book as well as her two most famous books "a vindication of the rights of man" (1790), a response to the french revolution, and "a vindication of the rights of woman" (1792) which argued that women should have the same rights and education as men. she called for equal education for boys and girls, believing that education gives the tools necessary to compete with men in public and economic life.