was not opened until 1869,[7] more than two decades after Tennyson wrote The Princess.[c] In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), however, Mary Wollstonecraft had been an early advocate of the equality of men and women,[6] and writers such as John Stuart Mill had argued for female emancipation.[7] Nevertheless, Tennyson was in the vanguard in writing of the subject[d] and although femini