![]() ![]() ![]() Hambling was commissioned to create the work in 2018. Rowlatt is also the founding trustee of the Wollstonecraft Society, a human rights education charity. The campaign was chaired by Bee Rowlatt who is a writer and journalist. The group reached its target of £143,300 in 2019. The "Mary on the Green" group was founded in 2010 to campaign and raise money for a statue of Wollstonecraft on Newington Green. The sculpture is sited opposite the Newington Green Unitarian Church that Wollstonecraft attended. The sculpture is inspired by Wollstonecraft's claim to be "the first of a new genus". ![]() Wollstonecraft's most famous quotation, "I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves", is inscribed on the plinth. The work is a representation of a naked female figure, emerging out of organic matter which the BBC described as "a swirling mingle of female forms". A work of the British artist Maggi Hambling, it was unveiled on 10 November 2020. ![]()
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