![]() ![]() Published almost a century before the beginnings of the female suffrage movement in the UK, it is considered one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy.Īs Mary on the Green points out, over 90% of London’s statues commemorate men. ![]() She is known particularly for her manifesto, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman published in 1792 : in it, she imagines a world in which women and men receive the same educational opportunities and live as partners in society. Mary Wollstonecraft was a writer and philosopher, born in London. Inscribed on the statue are Wollstonecraft’s words, ‘I do not wish to have power over men but over themselves.’ It shows a female figure emerging from the top of a wave-like swirl of female bodies, and the entire memorial is silver. It is situated in Newington Green in North London, near to where the ‘mother of feminism’ lived and worked. After years of campaigning and fundraising by the campaign group Mary on the Green, a statue of the iconic women’s rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft was unveiled at the beginning of this month. ![]()
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