Erection date: 19/9/2021
Mary Wollstonecraft
The trailblazing feminist writer had passionate relationships of various types with both men and women, and left a bold, inspiring queer legacy.
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Islington Pride
Heritage Fund
N16, Matthias Road, 39
Wollstonecraft attended this church from 1784.
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Mary Wollstonecraft - Islington's Pride
Writer, philosopher and feminist before her time. Born Primrose Street, Spita...
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Mary Wollstonecraft - Islington's Pride
The National Lottery Heritage Fund (rebranded 2019), formerly the Heritage Lo...
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Mary Wollstonecraft - Islington's Pride
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Puritan pastor. Birth date approximate. Appointed vicar of St Giles Cripplegate in 1658 but ejected by the 1662 Act of Uniformity, along with about 2,000 other clergymen who refused to adhere to ...
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