17. Which of the following would best help Wollstonecraft refine her ideas?
a. a discussion of societies from the past that have been ruled by
women
b. a quotation from a man showing his support for women's equal
education
c. evidence showing that women have not always expressed an
interest in education
d. the story of a girl who grows up to be happy after receiving a
strong education

Apparently your question is incomplete, but anyway by analyzing the ideals of Wollstonecraft we can say that the correct answer is option b. a quotation from a man showing his support for women's equal  education.

Explanation:

Wollstonecraft was self-taught, she was aware that a good cultural preparation was the only means available to a woman to fend for herself. Hence, after the early death of her mother, being forced to move the family forward, she opened a girls' school. She had the financial support of a friend, Fanny Blood, and with the help of her sisters, Eliza and Evelina.

She was in favor of women being educated like men. She did not want women to have power over them, but over themselves.

answer: there description

explanation: the description of a character

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.