Created by artist Maggi Hambling CBE and made of silvered bronze, it is the result of ten years’ fundraising and sits near the site of the girls’ school Mary Wollstonecraft founded at age 25 after largely educating herself.Īs of 2016, a mere 2.7% of statues in the UK depict (historical, non-royal) women, so this ought to be a step forward for equality. The statue, an objectively terrible eyesore depicting a weirdly tiny naked woman held up by a comparatively huge swirling mass of semi-formless women, has already proven rather controversial. A writer for mistakenly called it a statue of Mary Shelley, which may have started the confusion. Mary on the Green sits on Newington Green, Islington, in London. It’s happening this time largely because a statue of Mary Wollstonecraft-or rather, a statue in tribute to her-was unveiled on Tuesday, November 10. This is somewhat understandable since Wollstonecraft is Shelley’s mother, and Shelley is frequently credited as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. It’s a day ending in Y, so people are once again confusing Mary Wollstonecraft with Mary Shelley.
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