Mary Wollstonecraft Monument in London Generates Controversy

A sculpture dedicated to Mary Wollstonecraft, an 18th-century English writer, philosopher, and women’s rights advocate, is stirring controversy after its debut in London’s Newington Green park today. The public work by artist Maggi Hambling features a nude woman atop an abstracted silvered-bronze form, and it is the result of a 10-year-long fundraising campaign.
Bee Rowlatt, chair of the Mary on the Green campaign that raised £143,300 (about $189,760), told the BBC that Wollsto