Women like Marry Wollstonecraft stood out because they refused to follow the typical American woman path. She was the author of “Vindication of the Rights of Women.” This was a response to a French philosopher, Jean Jaquez Rousseau’s ideas about women’s rights. Although she never came to America, her book was published and widely spread among many states. She thought that people will understand her ideas better if she published what she had to say …show more content…
A writer who published stories/essays in “Godey’s Ladies Book” about how to keep their homes as beautiful and neat as possible. She was an inspiring woman for many others. The idea of a “goodwife” tuned into a “housewife” around this time, in the early 1800s. She believed in women’s education and that it was their obligation to raise educated children for the future generations. Her guidelines helped many women around the country and she was well respected. Often times, female writers like Beecher, used their pen names because of the restrictions they had for writers in those