ollstonecraft's best friend, Fanny, whom she named as the person who opened up her mind, embodied the potentials of a pure, almost (1788). Later, Wollstonecraft named her first daughter Frances, or Fanny, for her dear friend. Before this, in 1784, Wollstonecraft's sister Eliza was suffering badly from postpartum depression. Wollstonecraft implored her, and eventually persuaded and helped Eliza to leave her husband and child, in what was a radical move at the time. Her sister's life, though, was ruined: she was shunned from society and thrust into poverty. Just Be, over ten years later, Wollstonecraft herself Ik succumbed to death after battling septicaemia induced by the birth of her second child. Mary (who later became the revered author of , Mary Shelley). Along with the abuse she and her mother and sisters faced at the hands of her father. Wollstonecraft knew all too well the toll placed upon women, natural and unnatural.
