EQUALITY FOR WOMEN: FROM MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT TO THE SUFFRAGETTES AND BEYOND

Audio from Chalke Valley History Festival 2018.
“I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves” wrote the philosophical daredevil who changed the course of women’s rights, but paid the ultimate price. Find out how Mary Wollstonecraft’s legacy was annihilated for over a century, rediscovered with the suffrage movement, and still resonates today, with the woman who retraced her most notorious journey: Bee Rowlatt.