The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft is the acclaimed bestselling
biography by Claire TomalinWinner of the Whitbread First Book
PrizeWitty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one
of the most controversial figures of her day. She published A
Vindication of the Rights of Women; travelled to revolutionary France
and lived through the Terror and the destruction of the incipient French
feminist movement; produced an illegitimate daughter; and married
William Godwin before dying in childbed at the age of thirty-eight.
Often embattled and bitterly disappointed, she never gave up her radical
ideas or her belief that courage and honesty would triumph over
convention.
'Tomalin is a most intelligent and sympathetic
biographer, aware of her impetuous subject's many failings, yet with the
perception to present her greatness fairly. She writes well and
wittily' Daily Telegraph'A vivid evocation not only of what Mary went
through but also of how women lived in the second part of the eighteenth
century. Most of all, however, Tomalin makes Mary Wollstonecraft
unforgettable' Evening StandardFrom the acclaimed author of Samuel
Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible
Woman, this celebrated biography is the definitive account of Mary
Wollstonecraft's life.
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft - Claire Tomalin
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