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."--Back cover.

First sentence: AT the ragged eastern edge of the City of London is a district known as Spitalfields.

Year

1974

Language

English

Publisher

Penguin Group UK

Editions

5

ISBN

9780141912264

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