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The Newington Green school closes. Wollstonecraft’s ab-
sence while in Portugal may have contributed to its collapse.
Wollstonecraft moves to Mitchelstown, Ireland, to
become a governess for the Kingsborough family.
1787 Thoughts on the Education of Daughters and “On Poetry”
published in London.
Wollstonecraft travels to Dublin and Bristol with the
Kingsboroughs before they dismiss her for unknown
reasons.
1787 Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade founded in
London.
The U.S. Constitution adopted, replacing the original
post-revolutionary Articles of Confederation.
1788 Wollstonecraft’s autobiographical novel, Mary, a Fiction, is
published in London.
Wollstonecraft’s didactic children’s book Original
Stories from Real Life and her translation of French fi nance
minister Jacques Necker’s Of the Importance of Religious
Opinions are published in London.
Joseph Johnson invites Wollstonecraft to write book
reviews for the Analytical Review.
1789 The French Revolution begins.
The French National Assembly adopts the Declaration
of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen on August 26.
On October 5 and 6, poor women from Paris march
to Versailles to protest the cost of bread before King
Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette.
1789 Wollstonecraft’s literary miscellany The Female Reader is
published in London.
1790 Wollstonecraft becomes the editorial assistant of the Ana-
lytical Review.
Her loose translations of children’s books —Maria de
Cambon’s Young Grandison and Christian Salzmann’s Ele-
ments of Morality— are published in London.
1790 On November 1, Edmund Burke publishes Refl ections on
the Revolution in France, a strident critique of the French
Revolution.
1790 On November 29, Wollstonecraft anonymously publishes
the fi rst direct response to Burke’s Refl ections, A Vindica-
tion of the Rights of Men.