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Campaign to fund statue by sculptor Laury Dizengremel of the author in Richmond receives thousands of pounds after naked Wollstonecraft statue divides public
After the controversial unveiling of a naked statue honouring Mary Wollstonecraft this week, plans to erect a public monument to a fully-clothed Virginia Woolf have gained fresh momentum.
Maggi Hambling’s Wollstonecraft sculpture in Newington Green, London, which depicts a silvery, naked woman, is intended to represent the “birth of a movement” rather than the writer known as the mother of feminism. But it has attracted a wave of criticism. The author Caroline Criado-Perez, who led the campaign for a statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, described the decision-making process as “catastrophically wrong” and said the representation was “insulting” to Wollstonecraft. Continue reading...