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«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 about ten thousand pounds, which had been left him by his father.»
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