 With the rise of the movement to give women a political voice , Wollstonecraft 's work was exhumed . The first full @-@ length biography , by Elizabeth Robins Pennell , appeared in 1884 as part of a series by the Roberts Brothers on famous women . This followed an attempt at rehabilitation in 1879 , with the publication of Wollstonecraft 's Letters to Imlay , with prefatory memoir by C. Kegan Paul . Millicent Garrett Fawcett , a suffragist and later president of the National Union of Women 's Suffrage Societies , wrote the introduction to the centenary edition ( i.e. 1892 ) of the Rights of Woman , cleansing the memory of Wollstonecraft and claiming her as the <unk> of the struggle for the vote . As early as 1898 , Wollstonecraft was the subject of a doctoral thesis and its resulting book . 
