Mary Wollstonecraft was a passionately political woman; her essays A Vindication of the Rights of Man and its follow up, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, made her justly famous, particularly in intellectual circles. After a disastrous love affair (from which issued A Short Residence in Sweden ...
Seymour writes well and engaging. The biography presents Mary in a fair; in other words, she is not presented as a saint.