Mother and daughter knew each other for only 10 days. As was common in late 18th-century London, the author and early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft died of childbed fever less than two weeks after ...

A statue of a nude woman unveiled in London to honor feminist Mary Wollstonecraft has prompted criticism from some social media users. The statue was unveiled Tuesday on Newington Green in the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On August 30 1797, at 11.20pm, the radical philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft gave birth to her ...

Charlotte Gordon tells their story in Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley via a dual biography.

A "hyena in petticoats", wrote London literary eminence Horace Walpole in 1795 in a fit of misogynist pique against Mary Wollstonecraft, the author of the groundbreaking feminist tract, A Vindication ...

Mary Wollstonecraft, author of the pioneering feminist text “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” lived just 10 days after the birth of her daughter, Mary Shelley. For the future author of ...

A third Wollstonecraft biography, Janet Todd’s Mary Wollstonecraft (2000), apparently errs in the other direction by presenting Wollstonecraft as a “moody drama queen” (Gordon’s words) so prone to ...

'I am going to be the first of a new genus," Mary Wollstonecraft confided to her sister Everina in the summer of 1787. "I am not born to tread in the beaten track - the peculiar bent of my nature ...

Charlotte Gordon has managed to produce that rare thing, a work of genuinely popular history. By Melissa Benn This ingeniously constructed double biography tells the story of a mother and a ­daughter, ...

You wouldn’t know the significance of the small gravestone, tucked behind St. Pancras Old Church, London, if it weren’t for all the mud. There’s a meter radius of mud surrounding the grave of Mary ...

Juliet Aubrey and Ellie Kendrick read Charlotte Gordon's biography of the pioneering feminist and her novelist daughter. Mary Wollstonecraft, famous for her polemic A Vindication on the Rights of ...