The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft (Paperback)
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Short Description for The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures. She published "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman", travelled to revolutionary France, and lived through the Terror and the destruction of the incipient French feminist movement. This biography is the Winner of the Whitbread First Book Prize.
Full description- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Published: 01 September 1992
- Format: Paperback 384 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Literary Studies: C 1500 To C 1800 | Feminism & Feminist Theory | Gender Studies: Women
- ISBN 13: 9780140167610 ISBN 10: 0140167617
- Sales rank: 168,249
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Full description for The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft
Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She published "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"; 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. Winner of the Whitbread First Book Prize in 1974, this haunting biography achieved wide critical acclaim. Writing in the "New Statesman", J. H. Plumb called it, 'Wide, penetrating, sympathetic. There is no better book on Mary Wollstonecraft, nor is there likely to be'.
