Mary Shelley
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571279661 (057127966X)
Publish date: June 1st 2011
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Edition language: English
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.