Have you seen Mary Wollstonecraft's image on the Beverley Arms?
Fri 31st August 2018
Every night until mid-September, Mary Wollstonecraft's image is being projected onto the Beverley Arms. Why? Because she was a Beverley resident who was the first women's rights advocate, a writer and philosopher and the mother of Mary Shelley (who wrote Frankenstein). Mary's most famous book is A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) which argued (against the perceived wisdom of the day) that women were not inferior to men, should be treated the same as men and societal order should be based on reason.
Unfortunately, she died 11 days after giving birth to Mary, on 10th September 1797. With the emergence of the feminist movement, her work became viewed as seminal.
She lived at 2, Highgate, where a plaque has been unveiled by the Beverley and District Civic Society.
Image credit: Nancy Pease-Blackbourne
