This is the grave of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) in the graveyard of St Pancras Old Church. She is most well known for writing A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), one of the earliest feminist texts. She died of septicaemia a couple of weeks after giving birth to her second child, also called Mary. Her daughter also became a famous writer: Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.
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If I were ever to visit London again, I would certainly visit her grave and place a pebble on the headstone.
I thought small stones were placed by people who visit Jewish graves, but has the fine custom spread? I was reading that the hebrew word for pebble also means 'bond'.
January 26th, 2022
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If I were ever to visit London again, I would certainly visit her grave and place a pebble on the headstone.
I thought small stones were placed by people who visit Jewish graves, but has the fine custom spread? I was reading that the hebrew word for pebble also means 'bond'.