Anna Birch: Mary Wollstonecraft and Newington Green

Professor Anna Birch discusses the legacy then and now of Mary Wollstonecraft (born 27 April 1759, and died 10 September 1797). Wollstonecraft came to Newington Green in 1784 to set up a girls' school, and made connections with the many dissenters in the area. She became Britain’s first Feminist and her famous book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1792 continues to resonate.

Anna is a theatre director and academic fascinated by the power of feminist performance to produce new ways of thinking. Mary Wollstonecraft lived and worked on Newington Green near where Anna lives inspiring numerous performance and film events worldwide produced by her company Fragments & Monuments: http://fragmentsandmonuments.com/

Wollstonecraft Walks app: https://wollstonecraftwalks.netlify.app/

Mary Wollstonecraft and Newington Green: An Anthology edited by Emma Clery: https://bit.ly/2QQZIQs

and the forthcoming ‘Embodied and En-sited Performance: Reflections on Gender in Cooking Miss Julie / Miss Julie Cooks and March of Women,’ in Analysing Gender in Performance (eds) Halferty, P and Leeney, C Palgrave.

Anna can be found on Twitter:   / anna_birch1  
and Instagram:   / annabirch1  

The film is written and presented by Anna Birch
It was filmed and produced by Nick Perry
The music is by Tara Creme: https://www.freethebid.com/composers/...
With thanks to Wendy Forrest, Amy Todd, and Newington Green Meeting House https://www.ngmh.org.uk/