Mary on the Green Campaign

Every woman who wants to make an impact on the way this country is run — from the House of Commons to the pub quiz — has Mary Wollstonecraft to thank. Mary Beard, Cambridge Professor of Classics

• (Film made by Kieron Townend and Bee Rowlatt, with many thanks to Mary Moss, In-spired Music and Sauce Music.)
• Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, the first book in English arguing for the equality of women and men
• A pioneering activist for human rights
• Radical thinker who inspired the suffragettes a century later
• First female war correspondent and salaried journalist
• Radical thinker influencing Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin
• Early children’s author and advocate
• Mother of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein