Mary Wollstonecraft warned you that women who are only objects of pity and love, due to their “fascinating graces,” their “soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, [and] delicacy of sentiment” — in a word, due to their weakness (and not strength) — “will soon become objects of contempt.”

Day11 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: US economist and pacifist Emily Greene Balch!

Balch rethought economic justice for immigrants and working women. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for rethinking international law and leading the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.

#herstory

‘Extremely rare’ Bob Dylan draft lyrics discovered inside Allen Ginsberg book A torn page bearing Dylan’s lyrics for the 1967 song I’m Not There is set to go under the hammer in April when it could fetch £40,000

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‘It was bonkers’: Samba the runaway capybara inspires a wild rodent hunt Members of the UK public join the search after specialist dog units and thermal drones have yet to locate her

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How did I not know about the OWLS IN TOWELS account until now?????!!!!

Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft, courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery

Well-Known Women of East London celebrates women who shaped our history & contributed to society
Featuring figures from politics, social reform, the arts & activism, this online exhibition is hosted by Alternative Arts & with support from LBTH Archives
👉🏼 https://orlo.uk/0eCzy

Melania and the Robot

Melania’s Platobot has revived my Franken-research on the un-ethics of AI www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...

Today my 11yo told me he wanted to be a medical doctor and asked what he needed to study to achieve it. Victory is mine.

I have officially deactivated my meta and x accounts. My only social media account is this one.

2026 Annual George Rousseau Lecture: "Poland was but a breakfast": or, why 1772 helps us to understand 1776 David Armitage (Harvard University)

What linked the first partition of Poland and American independence? David Armitage (@davidrarmitage.bsky.social) explores the question in the George Rousseau Lecture, 13 May, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social: www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/2026-a...

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

Amazing performance of Arcadia at Old Vic, where Rosencrantz debuted.

When Frankenstein was a Chicagoan, or why Mary Shelley’s creation will never die There was a doctor in Chicago years ago named Victor Frankenstein, and one of his jobs was finding medical specimens. When you visit his grave, ponder just how much Mary Shelley’s creation remains ali...

When Frankenstein was a Chicagoan, or why Mary Shelley's creation will never die www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/18/v...

In Hoxton — where the 16 year old Mary Wollstonecraft met the eighteen year old Fanny Blood in 1775-76

So sad!

The Pi Day rush is real for Boston-area bake shops. Here's how they deliver Fran Kolenik, the owner of Drive-By Pies in Brookline, says Pi Day — aka March 14 — is the second-busiest day of the year for her bake shop. 

In the "true spirit of pi (3.1415926…)," MIT is releasing 2026 admissions decisions today at 1:59 p.m.

The university among the big Boston-area institutions that drive one of the busiest weeks of the year for local bakeries.

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." -George Orwell's '1984'

A bit like orphaned Frankenstein’s creatures, eh? No responsibility zone: bad for creators and creations.

Perspective: No copyright for AI-generated content On today's Perspective, David Gunkel explains why a recent court ruling isn't necessarily a win for "Team Human."

New radio op ed on WNIJ Northern Public Radio
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Eileen M. Hunt - Summer 2025: NEH Scholarly Editions Blog One of the eighteenth-century houses on the northeast corner of Hoxton Square, about a half mile directly south of the Wollstonecraft family home on Queen's-Row (now Hoxton Street) , in 1775-76. The ...

Updated Wollstoneblog post on Wollstonecraft in Bath! sites.google.com/nd.edu/eilee...

A good day — an article accepted on Wollstonecraft; a female student from two years ago asked for a letter for law school. Karma!

Mary Wollstonecraft: Roving Philosophical Report YouTube video by Philosophy Talk

Ahead of this week's #WiseWomen episode, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter to explore the turbulent life and times of Mary Wollstonecraft with @eileenmhunt.bsky.social from Notre Dame, author of "Portraits of #Wollstonecraft: The Making of a Feminist Icon, 1785 to 2020": youtu.be/TKndx-RNbF4

Lawrence Summers Will Resign From Harvard After Epstein Revelations

Lawrence Summers Will Resign From Harvard After Epstein Revelations www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

As seen in Philly! CBB loved Wollstonecraft and the Shelleys loved him for it.

Eileen M. Hunt - Winter 2026: NEH Scholarly Editions Blog St. Botolph's- without- Bishopsgate parish church

New Wollstoneblog post! On Wollstonecraft and Keats’s baptisms, and nearby Spitalfields. sites.google.com/nd.edu/eilee...

Rachel, I have a theory that Taylor’s mourning dress in the Fortnight video was inspired by this painting by Caspar David Friedrich that I used for the cover.

As seen in the Wild in Heffer’s, Cambridge!

The new dual bicentennial edition of Shelley’s THE LAST MAN and THE JOURNAL OF SORROW out now in the UK from Oxford World’s Classics!!! global.oup.com/ukhe/product...

Column | ‘Wuthering Heights’ and the birth of the toxic boyfriend A new movie of “Wuthering Heights” by feminist director Emerald Fennell grapples with the Catherine and Heathcliff Problem. Their dysfunction is irresistible.

Excellent essay—primo example of top-notch pop lit film criticism—makes me want to re-read the book (one of my favorites from my youth) before I see the movie. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

Thank you—US release is April or May. Sometimes books arrive early if you pre-order.