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Mary Wollstonecraft and liberal feminism

"When Joanna’s marriage to a fellow writer broke down four years later, she returned to Plath, the writer who had dazzled her as a teenager, to try to work out how she might negotiate the world as a newly single woman - the result was revelatory."

Joanna Biggs’ A Life of One’s Own looks to the letters and journals of literary women for guidance. Can they teach us how to live?

Mary Wollstonecraft broke new ground in the battle for women’s rights with the publication of 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman'—but there's far more to her legacy than just one book.

“I do not choose to be a secondary object.”

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Samantha Silva’s attention to period detail creates a worthy elegy to one of the world’s most influential feminist thinkers, Mary Wollstonecraft.

The Print Collector / Getty Images It is often all too easy to forget that significant historical figures - those at the forefront of new ways of thinking, whether that be Marxism or feminism - were individuals with likes, loves and lives of their own. Such is the case for the so-called mother of feminism, Mary Wollstoncraft (1759-1797), who history often mischaracterises as an overly serious moralist. It is this misconception that the Countess of St Andrews, Sylvana Tomasellis new book brillia...

As the debate around Maggi Hambling’s monument to Mary Wollstonecraft’s legacy reaches its second week, there has been little scrutiny so far of other artworks that commemorate the writer, philosopher and women’s rights advocate, who was famously described as ‘that hyena in petticoats’ by Horace Walpole. Best known today for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Wollstonecraft was a prolific writer, whose publications included a conduct book, a novel, a travel diary, several c...