Mary Wollstonecraft was a trail-blazing feminist who had her reputation ruined by the man who loved her.

I’ve never driven to an unknown destination without a map. Why did I think I could write a novel without one?

Campbell based his study on classical myths, the heroes of which are male - the Golden Fleece, Prometheus, King Arthur and Dante’s Inferno to name but a few. Campbell’s theory excludes women entirely. They are left out in the cold, high and dry.