#wollstonecraft

[enlitment]

Another one for my meet & greet collection - met the heroine of my MA dissertation in Dublin!

[summoningspark]

Me? Give birth??? When that's literally what killed Mary Wollstonecraft???

[cronicasdelholoceno]

Wollstonecraft. El principio siempre es hoy, Ricard Ruiz Garzón (Obscura).

[lillian-darby]

Happy Belated Women's Day 🌸 lotsa great women in this world have come, gone, remain & to come! Ada Lovelace, Mary Wollstonecraft, Erinna...

Queen Boudicca—whose Celtic culture titillated the Romans so much because of the freedom and power women had in daily life—who led the resistance & sadly lost

& the memory of The Sitones, a Norse or Germanic tribe described by the Roman historian Tacitus as having been ruled by women, unlike neighbouring ones 🌸 a terra femina or 'women's land' also existed somewhere north.

Pictured is also Hedy Lamarr, who is grand part of why we have Wi-Fi & Bluetooth today.

As an expansion to my previous list of women who went against the odds or flow, did great things, or lived in cultures that gave them more liberties, I present an updated one below for you all to explore ✨🌸

Trota Of Salerno

Hildegard of Bingen

Nettie Stevens

Lisa Meitner

Marietta Blau

Nona Gaprindashvili

Anarcha, Lucy, Betsey

Henrietta Lacks

Sally Ride

Camille Claudel

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Rosalind Franklin

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Alice Ball

Nell Gwyn

Hypatia

Emily Warren Roebling

Valeria Messalina

Faustina the Elder

Julia Domna

Inspiring myth of Agnodice of Athens

Cleopatra 6

Aphra Behn

Alice Roosevelt

Maria Oktyabrskaya

Shammuramat & Semiramis

Stratonice of Syria

Rhodogune

Princess Diana

Atossa

Parysatis

Sarah Rector

Theodora I

Dido

Artemisia I of Caria

Neferusobek

Hatshepsut

Nefertiti

Artemisia II of Caria

Ada of Caria

Tomyris

Onomaris?

Nefertari / Nefertari Meritmut / Naptera

Ašmu-Nikkal / Ašmu-nikal

Queen Puduḫepa / Pudu-Kheba

Sappho

Lampedo

Judy-Lynn del Rey

Edith Durham

Lydia D. Newman

Sarah Boone

Alice Parker

Marie Van Brittan Brown

Mary Kenner

Sister Rosetta Thorpe

Dr. Marian Croak

Dr. Shirley Jackson

Marpesia

Aspasia

Hipparchia of Maroneia

Margaret Keane

Dr. Sophonisba Preston Breckenridge, JD, PhM, PhD

Annie Montague Alexander

Louise Kellogg

Comtesse de Murat

Rosalie Kemble Sully & the portrait of Cinderella

Boudicca

Though endemic Celtic culture was just generally heaven for women compared to the later Roman values, I wanted to mention her as a way to speak of pre Roman Celtic culture

Mary Anning

Nannerl Mozart

Rebecka Mendelssohn

Qiu Jin

Mastoureh Ardalan

Asenath Barzani

Lady Adela

Gorgo, Queen of Sparta (as a reference point for the power available to a queen in ancient Sparta)

Fatma of the Ezdinan tribe

Helen Coley Nauts

Harriet Taylor Mill

Marie Curie

Anna Wheeler

Dorothea Lange

Simone de Beauvoir

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Shelley

Lise Meitner

Viola Franca

Jadwiga Łuszczewska

Bibha Chowdhuri

Rajeshwari Chatterjee

Ritu Karidhal

Janaki Ammal

Homai Vyarawalla

Usha Mehta

Usha Meshta

Anna Mani

Juana Ramirez

Gladys Mae West

Sophia Duleep Singh

Wallada bint al-Mustakfi

Hafsa bint al-Hajj al-Rakuniya

Muhja bint al-Tayyani

Agnes Lundell

Frances Oldham Kelsey

Mary Grew

La Belle Otéro

Erinna

Sojourner Truth

Justine Johnstone

Adhikar, the movie (1954)

Eleanor "Nell" Gwyn

Anne Royall

Mary Fisher (missionary)

Margaret Fell

Sarah Blackborow

Nana Asma’u

Nzinga / Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba (though she has been described asome leanings into both stronk woman and masc-leaning gender diverse; also had 50 gender diverse chibados in her court)

Sacheen Littlefeather

Virginia Woolf

Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler

Emmy Noether

"Emmy Noether – her courage, her frankness, her unconcern about her own fate, her conciliatory spirit – was in the midst of all the hatred and meanness, despair and sorrow surrounding us, a moral solace."

Marie Johanna Weiss

Olga Taussky-Todd

Grete Hermann

Auguste Dick

Grace Shover Quinn

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Lucretia Mott

Susan B Anthony

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Tubman

Mary Ludwig Hays

Margaret Corbin

Sofonisba anguissola

Fatima al-Fihri

Rosalind Franklin

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

Ada Lovelace

Maria Lydia Child

Mary The Jewess

Sylvia Plath

Zivia Lubetkin

Barbara Bartlett Stimson

Eliza Cook

Julia Soaemias Bassiana

Julia Maesa

Julia Domna

Ruth Andreas-Friedrich

Catherine of Siena

Bridget “Biddy” Mason

Wu Zetian

Maria Cunitz

Vera c. Rubin

Edmonia Lewis

There are also some here that honestly lean more into having been what we'd call transmasc+, agender, gender fluid, bigender or otherwise gender diverse but its not for me to assume without good evidence.

Others are also mythological but notable just the same 🌸

Belva Ann Lockwood

Victoria Woodhull

Harriet Goodhue Hosmer

"When Hosmer showed Zenobia in Chains at the International Exhibition at London’s Crystal Palace to critical acclaim, she was accused of attempting to pass off a man’s work as her own...."

Empress Theodora

Juanita Pearl Johns & Georgia Laura White

Lucy Stone

Zinaida Martynovna Portnova

Khutulun

Saint Theodora of the Vasta village

Matilda of Canossa

Ebba L. Lewenhaupt - Kung Märta

Jacqueline of Wittelsbach

Joan Of Arc

Emma Goldman

Voltairine de Cleyre

Women in pre-colonial Philippines

Abigail Adams

Kristina Gyllenstierna

Dr. Connie Myers Guion

Gladys West

Hedy Lamarr

Caroline Herschel

Mary Somerville

Lady Byron

Elizabeth Cary Agassiz

Rose Talbot Bullard

Charlotte Cushman

Anne Hampton Brewster

Dr. Elizabeth Ann Follansbee

Emma Stebbins

Her sculpture, Angel of the Waters, resides in central park.

Maroula Comnena

Margaret Fuller

Judith Sargent Murray

Catharine Macaulay

Joanna of Flanders

Mary Emma "May" Woolley

Jeanne de Clisson

Benazir Bhutto

The Gulabi Gang

Zsófia Torma

Laura X

Ruth Ginsburg

Katherine Johnson

Berthe Morisot

Katharine Blodgett

Annie Jump Cannon

Artemisia Gentileschi

Eunice Newton Foote

Rachel Carson

Radclyffe Hall

Helped popularize the concept of Sexual inversion and no doubt helped thousands in not millions of uranian & Gay men, sapphic & lesbian women, and trans+ people find themselves 💕

Hilma af Klint

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Mulieribus_Claris

Honorable & less honorable men I just can't not mention, even if not ALL has aged well🙃:

Ulysses S Grant

Rutherford B Hayes

Emperor Hongzhi

Ismail Mashal

Mr. Rogers (duh)

John Stuart Mill

Henry Hunt (politician)

John Neal

William Thompson

🌺🌺🌺 ✨✨💐💐

With cordial regards & love to you all, most beautiful people of this earth! 💖 Toodles ^^

-Lillian Darby, bluestocking bint

[philosophybitmaps]

[blackswaneuroparedux]

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

American intersectional feminism, intellectually incoherent and inherently misogynistic, has pitted men against women which is why modern feminism is in a cul de sac. Women’s liberation for them is merely commodification as Mary Harrington has put it succinctly.

The question is how you frame the question which makes all the difference. As Ayn Rand - perhaps the only thing she ever got right - put it another way: the question isn't who's going to let me; it's who's going to stop me.

Modern feminism focuses on the former with self-pitying victimhood as a bourgeois luxury belief. First wave feminists focused on the latter through a recognition of differences in biological sex, and yet had the grit and the determination to succeed on their own merits.  

[booksonthescreen]

Bridgerton S02E01 | Capital R Rake

Book: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Mary Wollstonecraft

[writing-with-melon]

Writeblr Re-Re-Introduction Updated

It's time for an update. :)

I’m Melon!

27 // she/they // gray ace

I love tea, music, sarcasm, and revolution. And writing I guess…

My alter ego is Latina living in the borderlands (she speaks Spanish and is a beeatch).

I have a film degree I have yet to use, but I’m a film nerd anyway. I also studied literature. (I’m a film/lit nerd)

I post writing tips, neat stuff, and of course stuff about my wips

I write: sci-fi // romance // period pieces // contemporary/urban fantasy // fanfiction // screenplays

My WIPs are:

Newcast Chronicles or The Queen’s Company: A steampunk adventure where the genius inventor Nathaniel Tate teams up with a band of outlaws that call themselves The Queen’s Company when his mentor is brutally murdered. Nathaniel helps the Queen’s Co. on their quest for revenge when he finds they all have a common enemy, a secret government faction, the very same that had his mentor killed. Found family, revenge, and dangerous heists and some time travel, just for fun.

Cursed Pennyroyal and The Wizard Asturia: The story of a cursed spellbreaker and a thief magician whose emotions have been stolen. They couldn't be more different and would never be friends but thanks to an evil spirit they must work together to dissolve a deadly curse that threatens the kingdom's annual masquerade and therefore the genral peace. And if things aren't complicated enough, they fall in love... with each other's alter egos. A world with neat spirits, double identity shenanigans, enemies to lovers, and a masquerade.

Wollstonecraft: (on hiatus) A story of love, family, secrets and werewolves. Emi moves back to her small town in NM, after nearly a decade of being away and she meets Kieran Wollstonecraft, who you guessed it, is a werewolf. After what seems like a one-night stand, she gets mixed up in his family drama which also kind of turns out to be her family drama. It’s a mess, but what are else are you gonna do if you’ve found your true mate?

I also have some Arcana fanfics if you're so inclined, but they are on hiatus: Notes on the Wall and You Knew the Name of the Wolf (Muriel x fem!reader)

You can also find me on wattpad and on Ao3 and again on tumblr @melonreblogsstories a blog dedicated to reblogging other people’s stories, wips, and writeblrs!

I’m looking for more writer friends who just want to talk about their own WIPS. If you’re a writeblr I’d love to check out your blog.

Melon is always super down to be tagged even if she takes a while to respond and her inbox is always open! :)