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 ...

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

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 ...

The novel has spawned countless stage and screen adaptations, including a new movie starring Oscar Isaac as the titular ...

It is said that the winners write the history, and this is very much true of women’s history. So, today, when most think about the women’s movement or “feminism,” it’s a story that begins in the 1960s ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study has revealed that Gen Z is the first generation where more women are leaving religion than men. This shocking flip in the gender divide is another mile marker that women are on the wrong ...

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