Letters to Mary

Series in which three writers send an informal letter to the influential British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, 250 years after her birth, updating her on the progress of her often radical ideas

Letters to Mary - Episode 1

Professor Janet Todd addresses a letter to Mary about her treatise Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, in which she discusses how to educate girls to be good wives and mothers.

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Letters to Mary - Episode 2

Richard Reeves, director of the think tank Demos, updates Mary Wollstonecraft on how her ideas about republicanism have, or have not, advanced in Britain in 250 years.

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Letters to Mary - Episode 3

Writers address informal letters to the British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Writer Natasha Walter looks at Wollstonecraft's central work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

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