Apparently there is a good deal of furore going on about the recently unveiled Mary Wollstonecraft Memorial in Stoke Newington.
Some of us wish to remark that, it may not be spectacular, but there is a memorial of kinds, I guess these days probably a cenotaph, and also probably no longer actually the site upon which Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin ( Read more... )

(Wednesday has once again been deferred.)
Today to the annual symposium of A Learned Body with which I am associated on New Light on Ancient Britons, deploying a variety of disciplinary/interdisciplinary approaches including DNA analysis.
But in the very first paper there was a thing about which I was going Wow! Amazing! That is So Cool! ( Read more... )

Yes, my dearios, Clio has taken out her trusty codfish in order to have at the presumption that Mary Wollstonecraft (Mary Wollstonecraft!!!) is somehow a neglected and forgotten figure:
Now it’s our turn to recognise her contribution to women’s rights.
No, just because you've written a book about her (and can I believe that this supersedes Barbara ( Read more... )

A salutory thought for the historical (and other) novelist, film-maker, etc. From B. G. MacCarthy's The Female Pen, which I am reading thanks to nessreader's recommendation, on the autobiography of Anne Clifford, Countess of Montgomery:
This woman lived under six reigns [Elizabeth I - James II], and yet she contrives to say nothing at all about the great ( Read more... )