After reading Aurora Leigh it made me think of Mary Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” because of the subject of women’s education and what they are educated on.  Also, because Aurora Leigh had similar ideas of wanting to be educated for education’s sake and not just to make her a better wife and mother.

Both Aurora and Mary wanted women’s education to have more than just what a woman needed to be a better wife and mother.  Instead of just learning the bare minimum to be able to hold an interesting conversation with her husband, that women should get the same educational opportunities that men have to learn things just to learn them.

Aurora’s aunt was still locked in the idea that women only could serve to be perfect wives and mothers and nothing beyond that. But Aurora wanted more than to be someone’s perfect wife. She wanted to be a poet and to do something with her life beyond what English society said a woman should be.

I am happy that nowadays men and women are given the same opportunity for education. Our society’s focus is no longer on education to make someone a better wife or husband. But education is now to learn how to be a good person in society and have a successful career. I think that it is good that our ideas have changed about women and education so that it is fairer for them now.  Thanks to women who thought like Aurora and Mary we can have women doctors, scientists, and professors, just to name a few.