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My inspiration
Claire Tomalin is one of our best known non-fiction writers. She won the Whitbread prize for her biography of Mary Wollstonecraft and Several Strangers, a collection of her journalism, has just been...
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Barbara Taylor: Vindication of the heart
Mary Wollstonecraft is notorious for her turbulent romantic life, which has often overshadowed her revolutionary ideas. But, argues Barbara Taylor, it is for her enlightened theories about love, sex...
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Review: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination, and Collected Letters
Judith Hawley finds Mary Wollstonecraft's reputation enhanced by her collected letters and Barbara Taylor's study, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination The Collected Letters of Mary...
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Observer Review: Mary Wollstonecraft by Lyndall Gordon
Lyndall Gordon's biography of Mary Wollstonecraft is as passionate and humane as its subject, says Kelly GrovierMary Wollstonecraft: A New Genius Lyndall Gordon Little, Brown £25, pp576Few literary...
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The treasure seeker
Mary Wollstonecraft's 1796 account of her Scandinavian travels hides an attempt to trace a missing cargo of silver for her lover, the American adventurer Gilbert Imlay. Lyndall Gordon and Gunnar Molden...
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Review: Mary Wollstonecraft by Lyndall Gordon
Natasha Walter is moved by Lyndall Gordon's account of the exceptional Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft: A New Genusby Lyndall Gordon576pp, Little, Brown, £25Mary Wollstonecraft's life and work...
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James Fenton on William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft
James Fenton on William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft"No one had written like this about a woman before," says Richard Holmes in the introduction to his fine new edition of William Godwin's life of...
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Non-fiction: Jan 14
Ian Pindar, Harriet Castor and John Dugdale on The Last of England? | A Mighty Fortress | An End to Suffering | The Perfect Egg and Other Secrets | Vindication: A Life of Mary WollstonecraftThe Last of...
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Squatting, and all that jazz
From Mary Wollstonecraft to the Angry Brigade, Stoke Newington, in North London, has always had a radical tradition. Now a group of squatters have taken over a former jazz bar for the 'community'.The...
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Mary Wollstonecraft's intelligent protest
Wollstonecraft wrote fiction to change reality. She would have made an excellent judge for the Orange prizeNo conventional bluestocking ... Mary Wollstonecraft in a drawing by A S Merrit after John...
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Pope Benedict XVI reiterates that traditional gender order should be respected
In his end-of-year address to Vatican staff, Pope Benedict XVI seems to have reiterated a familiar argument: that the traditional gender order should be respected. He isn't alone in this outlook....
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Natalie Hanman: Harriet Harman's equalities bill is a vindication that Mary...
Harman's equality bill addresses the problem of gender roles, which, 250 years after the feminist pioneer, is still to be resolvedThis weekend, I celebrated the 250th anniversary of the birth of Mary...
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International Women's Day launch for Mary Wollstonecraft memorial
Statue in north London park will commemorate pioneering feministOn the 100th International Women's Day, plans are getting underway to create the first statue anywhere in the world honouring Mary...
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Christine Lagarde – Would Mary Wollestonecraft be impressed? | Michael White
From the IMF through to familial Asia, author of Vindication of the Rights of Women would be fascinated by progressGood news or bad that Yingluck Shinawatra may be elected the next prime minister of...
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Mary Wollstonecraft's image is beamed onto Palace of Westminster
It was a fitting place to see this radical 18th-century campaigner, and was aimed at raising money to pay for a permanent statueShe has been called the mother of British feminism, so it is perhaps...
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English literature's 50 key moments from Marlowe to JK Rowling
What have been the hinge points in the evolution of Anglo-American literature? Here's a provisional, partisan listBBC Radio Three is currently broadcasting a fascinating series on the "50 key works" of...
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Are these the 50 most influential books by women? | Robert McCrum
As readers pointed out, my last list was rather skewed to a male-dominated tradition. Here is an alternative perspectiveLast week's post about the 50 turning-points of English (and American) literature...
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Does Jane Austen deserve a place on our £10 notes?
The revered novelist is 'waiting in the wings', the Bank of England revealed last week, for her chance to be in 'possession of a good fortune'. John Mullan and Fleet Street Fox discuss the merits of...
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Observer Review: Mary Wollstonecraft by Lyndall Gordon
Lyndall Gordon's biography of Mary Wollstonecraft is as passionate and humane as its subject, says Kelly GrovierMary Wollstonecraft: A New Genius Lyndall Gordon Little, Brown £25, pp576Few literary...
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The treasure seeker
Mary Wollstonecraft's 1796 account of her Scandinavian travels hides an attempt to trace a missing cargo of silver for her lover, the American adventurer Gilbert Imlay. Lyndall Gordon and Gunnar Molden...
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