Who are Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin? What did William Godwin reveal in the novel Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman that caused such a scandalous outcry from Mary Wollstonecraft's readers? Why were these revelations so scandalous to begin with? The following essay will attempt to detail the Godwin scandal, his reasoning behind the revelations involving suicide attempts and affairs, as well as the public opinions and place of women within the era. This article will explain much of the story of everyone involved, from Wollstonecraft herself, to Godwin and the British subjects. Mary Wollstonecraft is the second of seven children. Coming from a wealthy family, his father squandered money making them financially unstable. Although she was raised similarly to all women of the time, her father's violent anger caused her to become a maternal protector of her mother and sisters. Wollstonecraft slept outside her mother's room to keep her father from beating her, and, in her twenties, she convinced her sister Eliza to leave her husband and son while she suffered from postpartum depression, defying social norms. As a woman, her education was lacking. , which was the custom for a female person, especially those who lived without financial stability. Although she did not receive formal education, her desire for knowledge and her talent in translating and revising works gave her the opportunity to meet various authors and personalities such as Kant, Pain and Godwin. Wollstonecraft translated texts as if they were his own, rewriting most of them. During her time translating texts, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote for the Analytical Review. He was working for the periodical... half of the newspaper... n. Works Cited Baudino, Isabelle, Jacques Carré and Cécile Révauger. The Invisible Woman: Aspects of Women's Work in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2005. Web. 29 February 2012. Paul, Charles Kegan. William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries, Volume 1. H. S. King, 1876. eBook. 9 March 2012Tomaselli, Sylvana. “Mary Wollstonecraft,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2011 edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), Web. 6 March 2012 .Wollstonecraft, Mary. A vindication of women's rights: with restrictions on political and moral matters. Press.