Mary and Maria by Mary Wollstonecraft & Matilda by Mary Shelley
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
This book brings together three extraordinary novels by an extraordinary pair, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) – generally recognized as the mother of the feminist movement, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and Mary Shelley (1797-1851), her daughter, author of Frankenstein. In Mary (1788), Mary Wollstonecraft explores the position of an alienated intellectua….Read More
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