Monday, March 4th, 2019 - Monday, December 16th, 2019
In the library we have a display of writers from Bathsua Makin (c.1600-c.1673) to Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) who took on issues of equality, gender difference, biology as destiny, women in politics, education and equal pay. Issues we think as intrinsically modern have their origins in the long eighteenth century. Long before the Suffragists and Suffragettes, long before feminist movements and #MeToo, the pen was in these eighteenth-century women’s hands!
11am – 4.30pm
Last entry 4pm
Chawton House
Alton
Hampshire, UNITED KINGDOM
51.1281035, -0.988518
Writing Women’s Rights: “The pen in their hands”