![]() ![]() Intellectual society listened – spurred to thoughtfulness by the radical turmoil of the French Revolution – although real social change takes much longer to achieve, as is still all too evident today. ![]() Written in 1792 it upholds the importance of education for women and attacks the sexual double standards prevalent at the time, articulating concepts which still resonate over 200 years later. ![]() She authored one of the books that form the foundations of the women’s rights movement: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Mary Wollstonecraft was a radical and free thinker. However, today I’d like to go a little further back and look at mother and daughter Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. The centenary commemoration of Women’s Suffrage has cast a spotlight of the lives of extraordinary women in the last 100 years. ![]()
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