Mary Wollstonecraft
The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast
The History Chicks | AIRWAVE
4.7 • 8.3K 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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