Downstream

Wollstonecraft, the feminist
philosopher and writer best
known for A Vindication of
the Rights of Woman, who in
1795 threw herself into the
river here. In April of that
year she had returned to
England from a trip to
Scandinavia to learn that her
lover and the father of her
child, Captain Gilbert Imlay,
had moved in with another
woman. One November night
in heavy rain she jumped