When Art and Literature Collide

The recent unveiling of a statue of Mary Wollstonecraft – the seventeenth century campaigner for women’s rights and mother of acclaimed horror novelist Mary Shelley has sparked some controversy.

Most people seem to feel that women have enough statues, but a small minority complain that the statue portrays Wollstonecraft as being naked, when public nudity is not a thing she was known for.

But… why is she naked? Someones needs to climb up there and give her a dressing gown! We don't have naked statues of Shakespeare or Churchill, do we? Was she famous for being publicly naked? I don't think she was… https://t.co/hNEAgj6uxK

— C H Clepitt Aka Badgon