Person: Mary Wollstonecraft

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Hey Greer, WTF sista? Maybe you should zip it

There’s probably a long German word for that feeling of creeping existential disappointment you experience when a public figure you have long admired reveals themselves to be a twat.

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Book review: Jane and Dorothy — A True Tale of Sense and Sensibility, by Marian Veevers

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Discussing Jane Austen's talent and legacy on the 200th anniversary of her death

It’s always Caucasian people who say they don’t see race

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Kate Beaufoy: Lakeside lodge deserved a story, so I wrote Another Heartbeat in the House

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Bridget Christie: Let’s hear it for the girl

Wednesday's TV tips

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Wed, 25 Feb, 2015

What to watch on TV this week

Robin Wright and Kevin Spacey return for a third season of House of Cards on Netflix from Friday.

Sat, 21 Feb, 2015

THE ANATOMY OF A LIE - The Irish woman who lived as a man to practice medicine

When the esteemed Dr James Barry died in 1865, an examination of his body revealed that he was a woman, Margaret Bulkley, who had disguised herself to practise medicine, says Robert Hume

Fri, 01 Aug, 2014

How Byron’s challenge led to Dr Frankenstein

I Frankenstein, an action fantasy thriller based on Kevin Grevioux’s graphic novel, hits the big screen next week. Mary Shelley’s nameless ‘fiend’ is now Adam Frankenstein, played by Aaron Eckhart.

Fri, 24 Jan, 2014

Getting to grips with the incredible life and work of Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens: A Life

Sat, 24 Dec, 2011

Grant boost for university’s 4.3m bid to save Frankenstein manuscripts

THE surviving manuscripts of Mary Shelley’s famous gothic novel Frankenstein could be “saved” in a £3 million (4.3m) bid by Oxford University’s Bodleian Library.

Fri, 12 Dec, 2003