Ebook: The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft
Author: Tomalin Claire
- Tags: British & Irish History, Feminism & Feminist Theory, HISTORY--Europe--Great Britain--Georgian Era (1714-1837), LITERARY CRITICISM--Modern--18th Century, Literary Studies: C 1500 To C 1800, SOCIAL SCIENCE--Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory, HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain -- Georgian Era (1714-1837), LITERARY CRITICISM -- Modern -- 18th Century
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- City: London
- Language: English
- epub
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft is the acclaimed bestselling biography by Claire Tomalin
Winner of the Whitbread First Book Prize
Witty, 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
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