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.
Nos anos oitenta e noventa xurdiu outra imaxe de Wollstonecraft, que a describiu como moito máis unha figura do seu tempo; eruditas coma Claudia Johnson, Gary Kelly e Virginia Sapiro demostraron a continuidade entre o pensamento de Wollstonecraft e outras importantes ideas do século XVIII sobre temas como a sensibilidade, a economía e a teoría política.