The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft - Couverture souple

Tomalin, Claire

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140167617 ISBN 13 : 9780140167610

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 1992

Synopsis

Book by Tomalin Claire

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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’.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Claire Tomalin was born in London in 1933. She has worked in publishing and journalism all her life, becoming literary editor first of the New Statesman and then of the Sunday Times, which she left in 1986. She is the author of, among other books: The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft; Shelley and His World Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life; The Invisible Woman and the extraordinarily successful biography of Samuel Pepys. Other books written for Penguin are: Jane Austen: A Life and a collection of memoirs entitled Several Strangers.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0140167617
• ISBN 13: 9780140167610
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384