The life and death of Mary Wollstonecraft
By: Claire Tomalin.
Edition: [Rev. ed.].
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1992
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
Subjects: Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797.; Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography.; Feminists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Description: "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."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [346]-358) and index.
"A Penguin original"--Label on cover.