The period at the end of the Enlightenment, the time in which Mary was writing, is explored in A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade That Forged The Modern Mind by Rachel Hewitt. 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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