![]() ![]() During Fanny's pregnancy she sent for Mary. In 1784, Mary opened a school at Newington Green in Islington with her two sisters and her friend, Fanny Blood. She maintained this position from 1778 until she was called home to nurse her mother in 1781. Her first position was as a traveling companion to a Widow Dawson of Bath. Mary worked at various things before she established herself as an author. This responsibility, coupled with frequent moves (8 times in 19 years) to follow her father's unsuccessful attempts to make money, served to deprive Mary of security or confidence that a man would take care of her. Mary's position as the oldest daughter, put her in charge of four younger siblings, who were more than their mother's frail health could manage. Mary Wollstonecraft's early life was one of dwindling fortune and frequent upheaval. Edward was older than Mary, Henry, Eliza, Everina, James, and Charles were all younger. Her parents, John Edward Wollstonecraft and Elizabeth Dickson, had six children. ![]()
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