Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft (29 October 1791 – 16 May 1828) was a North American botanist, naturalist, botanical illustrator, and women's rights advocate, active in colonial Cuba in the early nineteenth century.
One of her nephews by marriage was Edward Wollstonecraft, a successful businessman in early colonial Australia.
[1] While there, she studied the flora of the island, and in the mid-1820s, created an extensive illustrated manuscript, Specimens of the Plants and Fruits of the Island of Cuba,[2] an important resource for the study of natural history in colonial Cuba.
[1] Wollstonecraft's three-volume manuscript, Specimens of the Plants and Fruits of the Island of Cuba, was thought by scholars to be a lost work.
It had been donated to Cornell University in 1923 by a faculty member who was descended from her family, but because early references to the work misidentified the author's name, its significance was not recognized.