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The Essay New Generation Thinkers Episodes

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Women's Rights

    5/5 Joanna Cohen looks back at the manifesto which remodelled the Declaration of Independence.

    John Gower, the Forgotten Medieval Poet

    4/5 Curing lovesickness or learning alchemy's secrets. Seb Falk on Chaucer's friend John Gower

    Sarah Scott and the Dream of a Female Utopia

    3/5 Lucy Powell tells the story of a radical community of women set up in 1760s rural England.

    The Forgotten German Princess

    2/5 The tale of Mary Moders, a C17 bigamist and media sensation, is retold by John Gallagher.

    Rehabilitating the Reverend John Trusler

    1/5 Sophie Coulombeau challenges the way we look at failure in the story of a C18 entrepreneur