Vindication: A Life Of Mary Wollstonecraft
A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
$80.89
- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
2 March 2006
Summary
In this stunning new biography of the eighteenth-century writer Mary Wollstonecraft, Lyndall Gordon explores the life of a woman often criticised by biographers, historians and feminists alike. Gordon challenges such slanders, and portrays instead the genius of this extraordinary woman. The two-generation approach to her life examines not only Wollstonecraft herself, but also her effect on her daughters and heirs (Mary Shelley, Fanny Imlay, Claire Clairmont and Margaret Mount Cashell), and th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844081417 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844081419 |
| Author: | Lyndall Gordon |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 2 March 2006 |
| Weight: | 420g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 131mm x 34mm |
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Gordon’s moving tribute brings alive the depth and complexity of the woman, and the intellectual debt that generations of Wollstonecraft’s political daughters owe her to this day.’ Melissa Benn - The Independent ‘Gordon’s biographical method is exciting. From this beautifully written book, Wollstonecraft emerges as a triumphant success, despite all adversity and slights of fate. - Ruth Scurr - The Times ‘Brings alive the depth and complexity of the woman’
Melissa Benn, Independent “Gordon’s biographical method is exciting…From this fair and finely balanced book, Wollstonecraft emerges as a triumphant success, despite all adversity and sleights of fate - Ruth Scurr - The TimesGordon presents her subject with a freshness that makes the reader feel they are being introduced to this familiar figure for the very first time. The impression of newness is magnified by Gordon’s use of overlooked and recently excavated souces which shed much needed light on the darker corridors of Wollstonecraft’s life - ObserverIt is the elasticity and range of Gordon’s mind that make this biography so rewarding - Sunday TimesAbout The Author
Lyndall Gordon
Author of the prizewinning biographies ELIOT’S EARLY YEARS, ELIOT’S NEW LIFE and VIRGINIA WOOLF: A WRITER’S LIFE. Born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, Lyndall received her doctorate from Columbia University and is a fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford.
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