Improving local people’s opportunities in health, employment and community life since 1992 Weekly Newsletter Edition 45, 26 November 2020 What’s on at WEP – our free face-to-face and online Wellbeing and Employability services The nights are getting darker and colder, I hope this week’s newsletter finds you in good spirits keeping warm, well and safe. For back editions of this newsletter or to be added to the mailing list, please visit the link to our website: https://www.westeustonpartnership.org/about-us-2/newsletters/ or email [email protected]. Like to know how you can safely expand the group of people you have close contact with during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic? For more information about making a support bubble with another household, check out this website - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/making-a-support-bubble-with-another-household?priority- taxon=774cee22-d896-44c1-a611-e3109cce8eae To book an appointment for Careers Advice, CV surgery or a place on the Dyslexia etc workshop contact David on 07908845154 or [email protected]. For information on Tai Chi email [email protected] and if you want to know more about Study Support, WE CAN, or anything else email [email protected]. People’s Corner Mary Wollstonecraft – Women’s Rights Icon Born on the 27 April 1759 and best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Mary Wollstonecraft is regarded as one of the founders of feminist philosophy. She argued that women deserved to have a real education and not just a training in superficial accomplishments, to have the same fundamental rights as men and not to be treated as being inferior to men. She wrote first A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) a political pamphlet, part of the British debate over the French Revolution, attacking aristocracy, hierarchy and tradition. Mary had been a governess and a paid companion. She had also set up her own school in Newington Green, Islington with her sister but this closed due to financial difficulties. It was then that Mary made a radical decision to pursue a living as a writer, something few women could do at the time. She joined a liberal-minded intellectual group and was assisted by her friend, bookseller and publisher Joseph Johnson who published all of her works, beginning with Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787). During her brief career she wrote novels, a children’s book, a travel narrative and various treatises. She also translated texts from French and German. While living in London she became involved with Henry Fuseli, a Swiss painter, who was already married. He ended their relationship and feeling humiliated she moved to France, during the dangerous time of the French Revolution. In Paris she met and fell in love with Gilbert Imlay, an American diplomat who offered to protect her from arrest or execution during the Reign of Terror by registering Mary as his wife at the US Embassy, though they were not really married. Their child, Fanny, was born in 1794. Imlay left for London on business and eventually Mary returned too, looking for a reunion. His rejection led her to attempt to commit suicide but Imlay saved her. She embarked on a business trip on behalf of Imlay, taking her child to Scandinavia where she wrote letters of her travels which were later published. On her return she realised Imlay’s rejection of herself and her child was 1 Improving local people’s opportunities in health, employment and community life since 1992 Weekly Newsletter Edition 45, 26 November 2020 permanent and so attempted suicide again. Having been rescued after throwing herself off Putney Bridge, she gradually recovered and returned to her literary life. Over time she developed a relationship with William Godwin, a political philosopher and novelist. Becoming pregnant they decided to marry in 1797. Soon after giving birth to another daughter, Mary aged 38 died from complications on the 10 September 1797. Their daughter, also named Mary (Shelly) would go on to write Frankenstein. Her husband published an honest memoir of his wife which revealed all the particulars of her private life - this had a devastating effect on her reputation for almost a century. But her legacy is her body of work, which re-emerged during the suffragist movement and whose influence continued - and continues still - to be an inspiration for the feminist movement. Her writing, her arguments and her life story have a place in history and yet retain a relevance to this day. Mary lived in Somers Town after she married William and there are several plaques around London to commemorate her, including the houses she lived in on Oakshott Street and Marchmont Street in Bloomsbury. There is mural on Polygon Street depicting Mary with her husband William and daughter Mary. The first new road in the King’s Cross St Pancras redevelopment was named Wollstonecraft Street and Mary Wollstonecraft House is on Chalton Street. She was buried in the churchyard of St Pancras Old Church on Pancras Road. This month a statue commemorating Mary Wollstonecraft was erected in Newington Green. It has caused some discord and criticism as it is not a depiction of Mary herself but a nude figure representing “everywoman” and the birth of the feminist movement. 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Till one by one were we split My teacher, she gave me a smack on the pate And off in the corner I sit Admittedly still I'm not hitting the books Though now I'm hugging a tree I guess in the end it's not bad as it looks I went from a C to a B Answers to this riddle in next week’s edition – have fun trying to solve these, please share! Answers to last week’s puzzle – A television antenna. This Week’s Funny Poem Our school trip was a special occasion But we never reached our destination Instead of the Zoo I was locked in the loo of the toilet at the service station! Enjoy Some Uplifting Music The Essential Collection Chapter 1 – Augustus Pablo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA-RUTmd1a0 Common People – Pulp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTMWgOduFM Parklife – Blur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSuHrTfcikU The Quarantine Blues – ft John Mclaughlin, Carlos Santana, Cindy Blackman Santana and more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbcerxytkVQ Love Notes – Ramsey Lewis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVmpNBa4hcM On and On - Erykah Badu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CPCs7vVz6s Do you have a poem, music, joke or puzzle you’d like to share? If so, we’d love to print it.