Mary Wollstonecraft
It’s my birthday too, but not a milestone like the 250th.
“How many women thus waste life away, the prey of discontent, who might have practised as physicians, regulated a farm, managed a shop, and stood erect, supported by their own industry, instead of hanging their heads surcharged with the dew of sensibility, that consumes the beauty to which it at first gave lustre.”
–Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792)
Tags: history, women's studies
April 28, 2009 at 2:11 am |
Happy birthday to you too! I have compiled some of the recent responses to Mary Wollstonecraft’s 250th birthday here:
http://delicious.com/roberta.wedge/MaryWollstonecraft
There is an American historian looking at her sibling relationships, and an Australian law prof linking her to Afghani struggles, and London psychogeographers going for a stroll….
April 28, 2009 at 6:27 am |
Happy Birthday!