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The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

Mary Wollstonecraft

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

The History Chicks | AIRWAVE

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.78.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2011

⏱️ 67 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

0:07.0

And here's your 30-second summary.

0:11.0

Raised his emote to his home, this woman bucked convention.

0:14.0

Flotter and her demons marched the beat of her own drum mark and wrote what is considered one of the earliest feminist documents long before feminists' documents were told.

0:24.0

Let's talk about Mary Wolston Crafts.

0:28.0

Yes, let's first let's drop her into history.

0:31.0

In 1759, George Washington Mary's Martha Dandridge Curtis.

0:37.0

The 27th recorded passage of Haley's comet.

0:40.0

George Frederick Handel of the Messiah died.

0:44.0

Marie and Tuenette, our friend, turned four.

0:48.0

And on April 27th, Mary Wolston Craft was born in London.

0:53.0

Mary was born the second of seven children to Edward and Elizabeth Wolston Crafts.

0:59.0

Her grandfather had been a master weaver and had left quite a large inheritance to her father Edward, who was not the world's greatest money manager.

1:08.0

I mean, think about that. He was the son of a self-made rich man.

1:11.0

And so he had no talents for stick to it if this.

1:14.0

Right.

1:16.0

That's how it goes.

1:17.0

And basically, he didn't want to mess around with weaving.

1:20.0

No.

1:21.0

And all that.

1:22.0

He wouldn't do that.

1:23.0

Move out in the country where we could hobnob and throw some money around.

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