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Mary Wollstonecraft — an English philosopher, author and feminist — was born on this day in 1759 into a financially unstable London household with a violent alcoholic father. Wollstonecraft rejected the notion that women were incapable of reason, and she promoted women’s education. She also opposed marriage, which she considered a form of slavery. Mary Wollstonecraft, in a painting circa 1797. Mary Wollstonecraft, in a painting circa 1797. John Opie/National Portrait Gallery, London In the end she did marry — her husband was William Godwin, now seen as one of the first modern proponents of anarchism — when she was pregnant with her second child. (Wollstonecraft had a daughter from an affair with an American.) She died at 38, less than two weeks after giving birth to a second daughter, Mary, who would grow up to write “Frankenstein.” Among the works for which Wollstonecraft is known are two public letters: “A Vindication of the Rights of Men” (published anonymously in 1790) and “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” published in 1792. Her goal for women: “I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.” #marywollstonecraft #vindicationoftherightsofwoman https://www.instagram.com/p/COKwCSjLaLq/?igshid=7yijlpjmaz6u

7th May 1748, birth of French playwright, early feminist and abolitionist Olympe de Gouges. Her political writings and plays demanded that women be given the same rights as Men. Her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791), predates Mary Wollstonecraft’s ‘Vindication of the Rights of Women’ by a year. She was executed during the ‘Reign of Terror’ for her associations with the Girondists, the political enemies of the Jacobins. 27th April 1759, birth of English writer, philosopher, and early pioneer of women's rights Mary Wollstonecraft, author of ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’, published in 1792. After two ill fated love affairs with Henry Fuseli, and the American adventurer Gilbert Imlay, Wollstonecraft met and married the political philosopher and novelist William Godwin, who was born this week on the 3rd March, despite Godwin’s opposition to marriage. After only six months of marriage, Mary Wollstonecraft died eleven days days after giving birth to their daughter Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who later married Percy Bysshe Shelley, becoming Mary Shelley. Scandalized during her lifetime, for her writing and unorthodox lifestyle, Wollstonecraft was marginalized for the majority of the 19th century. Her works and ideas were revived however, during the re-emergence of the feminist movement at the beginning of the 20th century, where her pioneering achievements were finally recognized. Continued in the comments #womenshistorymonth2021 #womenshistorymuseum #marywollstonecraft #vindicationoftherightsofwoman #frenchrevolution #18thcenturyhistory #reignofterror #maryshelley #percyshelley #romanticismart #feministhistory #historical #historicalstories #historicalstory #vintagelooks #vintagelooking #tarotcommunity #tarotillustration #tarotart #historicaltarot #queenofpentacles #tarotdecks #queenofswords #gothicbeauty #occultarcana #esotericart #tarotreadersofinstagram #steampunktarot #darktarot #tarotartist https://www.instagram.com/p/CMC4CNXnWtU/?igshid=1ir7fkvju2euy

‘A Vindication of the Rights of Ballonmania’ All art shown is inspired by the history mentioned, and is for sale on the website. See link in bio. 22nd October 1797, French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes the first parachute descent from a balloon in Paris, using his silk umbrella-shaped device. Ascending connected to a balloon, at a height of 3,000 feet, Garnerin cut the cord and descended with the parachute swinging wildly, before it hit the ground with Garnerin emerging uninjured. The following year Garnerin created a scandal, when he announced that his next balloon flight would include a female passenger, Citoyenne Henri. Although the announcement created a media sensation, the authorities in Paris initially issued an injunction, citing that reduced air pressure might have a detrimental effect on the organs of a delicate female body, and that the close proximity of the balloons basket would result in impropriety. The injunction was later overturned and the flight took place, on the 8th July 1798 from the Parc Monceau in Paris. Citoyenne Henri was later accoladed as the first woman "who ever had the courage to trust herself in the regions of air". Despite this credit, other women had already flown in balloons before the French Revolution. The Marchioness and Countess of Montalembert, the Countess of Podenas and a Miss de Lagarde, had ascended in a tethered balloon on the 20th May 1784, and the following month on the 4th June, eight months after the first untethered ascent by the Montgolfier brothers; Madame Elizabeth Thible, dressed as the Roman goddess Minerva, became the first female balloonist, after ascending 1,500 meters in a balloon named ‘La Gustave’ in honour of King Gustav III of Sweden's visit to Lyon. continued in the comments. #balloons #ballooning #balloonmania #frenchrevolution #vindicationoftherightsofwoman #marywolstonecraft #18thcentury #montgolfière #tarotcards #tarot #tarotart #tarotartwork #hiddenhistory #history #interesting #interestingfacts #thechariot #feminism #feministhistory #parachute #womeninhistory #hotairballoon #hotairballoons #hotairballoonart #romanticpoets https://www.instagram.com/p/CGxdNPVAiCj/?igshid=1wotc0oym2oa8

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