Toddler in tow, Bee Rowlatt embarked on an extraordinary journey tracing the steps of Mary Wollstonecraft across the wild coasts of Norway and the blood-soaked streets of revolutionary Paris, via a naked re-birthing in California and a council estate in Leeds. Bee talks to Alex Clark about what she learned about Mary, what drove her hero on and what’s been won and lost over the centuries in the battle for equality.