 With the emergence of feminist criticism in academia in the 1960s and 1970s , Wollstonecraft 's works returned to prominence . Their fortunes reflected that of the second wave of the North American feminist movement itself ; for example , in the early 1970s , six major biographies of Wollstonecraft were published that presented her " passionate life in apposition to [ her ] radical and rationalist agenda " . The feminist artwork The Dinner Party , first exhibited in 1979 , features a place setting for Wollstonecraft . In the 1980s and 1990s , yet another image of Wollstonecraft emerged , one which described her as much more a creature of her time ; scholars such as Claudia Johnson , Gary Kelly , and Virginia Sapiro demonstrated the continuity between Wollstonecraft 's thought and other important eighteenth @-@ century ideas regarding topics such as sensibility , economics , and political theory . 
