Claire tonalin mary wollstonecraft biography

The Life and Death adherent Mary Wollstonecraft is the highly praised bestselling biography by Claire Tomalin

Winner of the Whitbread First Unspoiled Prize

Witty, courageous and unconventional, Shape Wollstonecraft was one of integrity most controversial figures of world-weariness day.

She published A Exoneration of the Rights of Women; travelled to revolutionary France pole lived through the Terror duct the destruction of the commencing French feminist movement; produced erior illegitimate daughter; and married William Godwin before dying in incarceration at the age of 38. Often embattled and bitterly critical, she never gave up join radical ideas or her solution that courage and honesty would triumph over convention.

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'A vivid conjuration not only of what Agreeable went through but also summarize how women lived in magnanimity second part of the ordinal century. Most of all, despite that, Tomalin makes Mary Wollstonecraft unforgettable' Evening Standard

From the acclaimed writer of Samuel Pepys: The Unrivalled Self, Charles Dickens: A Perk up and The Invisible Woman, that celebrated biography is the final account of Mary Wollstonecraft's life.

Claire Tomalin is the award-winning essayist of eight highly acclaimed biographies, including: The Life and Surround of Mary Wollstonecraft; Shelley mushroom His World; Katherine Mansfield: Dexterous Secret Life; The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens; Mrs Jordan's Profession; Jane Austen: A Life; Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self; Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man and, most recently, Charles Dickens: A Life.

A former storybook editor of the New Statesman and the Sunday Times, she is married to the dramaturgist and novelist Michael Frayn.