The mother of feminism Mary Wollstonecraft.
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With restoration work on the historic Newington Green Meeting House complete, it will now play host to a series of streamed concerts named after the buildings most famous attendee, Mary Wollstonecraft.
The Mary Wollstonecraft Music Café Concert Series will launch during Wollstonecraft s 262nd birthday week from April 25 to May 2.
Short teaser concerts are to be streamed as part of celebrations as well as talks by Nobel prize-winning economist Prof. Amartya Sen, Bee Rowlatt of the Wollstonecraft Society and Dr. Alpa Shah of the London School of Economics.
Mary s Music Cafe will then continue as a monthly music event featuring an eclectic range of music by women from around the world and through the ages, reflecting the building s history of radical thought.
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