Poster: 'Mary Wollstonecraft and the Dissenters of Newington Green'
Object
Poster
Object number
2022.33
Physical Description
A landscape print of a photograph. The photograph shows 12 models - representing the Dissenters of Newington Green - dressed in historical costume, hair and makeup. They are standing together in the courtyard of a building surrounded by a central character who is wearing a red cloak - she represents the writer Mary Wollstonecraft. All of the characters are in dark clothing, mainly burgundy and brown. Around the poster there is a white border and in its bottom right corner is text about the image.
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Associated Person
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Dimension
Width: 800mm
Height: 600mm
Height: 600mm
Exhibition Label
From the exhibition 'Making Her Mark: 100 Years of Women's Activism in Hackney' [6 February - 19 May 2018]
Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759 – 1797
“The DIVINE RIGHT of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.” Mary Wollstonecraft was a radical author and philosopher who challenged convention in her life and her writing. She wrote what many view as the founding text of feminism and inspired women’s suffrage campaigners, including Millicent Fawcett. In 1783 she opened a school for girls in Newington Green with her sister and best friend. She wrote about her experiences in her first book ‘Thoughts On The Education Of Daughters’.
Wollstonecraft was an influential figure amongst the community of radical thinkers at Newington Green. In 1792 she published ‘Vindication Of The Rights of Woman’ which argued that women were not naturally inferior to men, and it was a lack of education which stopped women from fulfilling their potential. It became an instant bestseller, translated into French and German, and published in America.
Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759 – 1797
“The DIVINE RIGHT of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.” Mary Wollstonecraft was a radical author and philosopher who challenged convention in her life and her writing. She wrote what many view as the founding text of feminism and inspired women’s suffrage campaigners, including Millicent Fawcett. In 1783 she opened a school for girls in Newington Green with her sister and best friend. She wrote about her experiences in her first book ‘Thoughts On The Education Of Daughters’.
Wollstonecraft was an influential figure amongst the community of radical thinkers at Newington Green. In 1792 she published ‘Vindication Of The Rights of Woman’ which argued that women were not naturally inferior to men, and it was a lack of education which stopped women from fulfilling their potential. It became an instant bestseller, translated into French and German, and published in America.
Credit line
(C) Red Saunders
On display?
No
Inscription
(C) Red Saunders 2011 - The Hidden Project Mary Wollstonecraft and the Dissenters of Newington Green, 1794 www.pastpixels.co.uk