Sylvana Tomaselli, the Countess of St Andrews, has released a new book about 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 Tomaselli's new book brilliantly debunks, instead showing the pioneering womens' rights activist to have been a warm mother-o...
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