Life events

Publications (see bibliography )

• 27 April: Birth

• Meets Fanny Blood, who became her closest friend

• Works as companion to Mrs. Dawson of Bath

• Returns home to nurse mother

• Mother dies
• Mary moves in with Blood family

•  Assists Eliza in running away from husband
•  Mary, Eliza and Fanny Blood attempt to start a school
•  Move to Newington Green
•  Meets Dissenters, including Richard Price and Joseph Johnson

• November: Fanny Blood dies in childbirth with Mary by her side

• School fails
• Becomes governess for Lord and Lady Kingsborough near Cork, Ireland

• August: Mary dismissed from Kingsborough's and returns to London
• Encouraged to write by Johnson

• Thoughts on the Education of Daughters: With Reflections on Female Conduct, In the More Important Duties of Life

• Analytical Review founded by Joseph Johnson and Thomas Christie; Mary begins contributing articles

• Mary: A Fiction
• Original Stories from Real Life: With Conversations Calculated to Regulate the Affections and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness
• Translation of Jacques Necker's On the Importance of Religious Opinions
  

• The Female Reader: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse: Selected From the Best Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads: For the Improvement of Young Women

• Translation of Madame de Cambon's Young Grandison
• A Vindication of the Rights of Men, In a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke
• Translation of Christian Gotthilf Salzmann's Elements of Morality for the Use of Children
  

• Travels to Paris

• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
  

• Meets Gilbert Imlay, an American explorer, author and entrepeneur
• September: Registers as Imlay's wife (falsely) at US embassy in Paris

• 14 May: Mary's daughter, Fanny Imlay, is born

• An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution; and the Effect it Has Produced in Europe

• January: Breaks with Imlay and attempts suicide, probably with laudanum
• June-September: Travels with Fanny in Scandanavia
• October: Attempts second suicide by jumping off Putney Bridge

•  Becomes reacquainted with William Godwin, Dissenter, author and philosopher

• Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

• 29 March: Mary and Godwin marry
• 30 August: Mary's second daughter, Mary Godwin, is born

• 10 September: Death from puerperal ("childbed") fever

• Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (edited by William Godwin)

Including: The Wrongs of Woman: or, Maria.

• Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft (by William Godwin)