Does anyone want to start a campaign for a Mary Wollstonecraft Day? It doesn't have to start off as a worldwide paid day off. It could be like Apple Day, which is not sponsored by the Apple Marketing Board, or Apple Corp. (Aside: I saw a "Sent from my iPhone" at the end of a message, except it was space-curtailed. The truncated version said "Sent from my iPho". For a second my brain misfired. "What? Steve Jobs's ghost is serving Vietnamese soup? Someone has to tell them when to stop!")
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*Wikipedia has two whole paragraphs about the apostrophe issue.
I decree a LOVE YOUR PEDANTS DAY.
**Same day, different name in Manitoba: Louis Riel Day.
Best Tshirt spotted in Toronto: portrait of the rabble-rouser, captioned Keepin' it Riel.
Photo of Riel is in the public domain, see here.
A Mary Wollstonecraft Day is a great idea. Her birthday?
ReplyDeleteSure, why not! April 27 is fine by me. Will you start the campaign?
DeleteI would love to support such a campaign and help to start it. Where I live I and a few others established a 'day' over the years (www.denpoezie.cz - begun in 1999 and over time taken hold)so I know it can be done with much fervour and little or no money. But I am rather distant and could only support virtually, plus this year's birthday is looming and around it a clot of commitments for me (am helping to organise some events at a book fair just then e.g. to say nothing of the end of term exams). So, in short, I am enthusiastic, but not able to spearhead anything beyond supporting a twitter campaign or similar this year. Would the Mary on the Green campaign be interested? It could be a nice campaign, even if it were only on the twitter level for the first year - and maybe connected to the anniversary of the publication of A Vindication. April 27th is also South Africa's Freedom Day and Togo and Sierra Leone have their Independence Day also, so an auspicious day.
ReplyDeleteWell, I used to know one of the people who created Apple Day -- not the Apple & Pear Farmers' Association, not the Steve Jobs Geek Fest, not the Beatles Fan Club, but Common Ground, a small British charity devoted to finding and appreciating the special in the local. Now Apple Day is celebrated all over the country (and even in Afghanistan). So I quite take your point, that it can be done, a day can be cut out of whole cloth, as it were.
ReplyDeleteI think a lot can be done virtually -- maybe the whole idea of the day can be virtual, for the first year. Can you tell us a little about denpoezie? How did it arise, how did it evolve over the years, what is it now?