The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9780241963319
  • 21 juni 2012
  • 400 pagina's
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Claire Tomalin

Claire Tomalin is the author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, including  Thomas Hardy and  Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, which won the 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year Award. She has previously won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Hawthornden Prize, the NCR Book Award for Non-Fiction, and the Whitbread Biography Award. She has also written her own biography, A Life of My Own. Educated at Cambridge University, she served as literary editor of the  New Statesman and the  Sunday Times (London). Claire Tomalin lives in London and is married to the playwright Michael Frayn.

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Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She published A Vindication of the Rights of Women; travelled to revolutionary France and lived through the Terror and the destruction of the incipient French feminist movement; and produced an illegitimate daughter.



The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft is the acclaimed bestselling biography by Claire Tomalin

Winner of the Whitbread First Book Prize

Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She published A Vindication of the Rights of Women; 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.

'Tomalin is a most intelligent and sympathetic biographer, aware of her impetuous subject's many failings, yet with the perception to present her greatness fairly. She writes well and wittily' Daily Telegraph

'A vivid evocation not only of what Mary went through but also of how women lived in the second part of the eighteenth century. Most of all, however, Tomalin makes Mary Wollstonecraft unforgettable' Evening Standard

From the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman, this celebrated biography is the definitive account of Mary Wollstonecraft's life.

Claire Tomalin is the award-winning author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, including: The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft; Shelley and His World; Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life; The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens; Mrs Jordan's Profession; Jane Austen: A Life; Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self; Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man and, most recently, Charles Dickens: A Life. A former literary editor of the New Statesman and the Sunday Times, she is married to the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn.

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21 juni 2012
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Claire Tomalin
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Penguin Books Ltd

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Claire Tomalin

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Product lengte
198 mm
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129 mm
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30 mm
Verpakking lengte
197 mm
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  • The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft

    Fascinerend verhaal van het leven van een sterke, complexe en tragische figuur; Mary Wollstonecraft. Een intelligent en zeer leesbare biografie. Geeft een goed uitgebalanceerde blik in zowel de intellectuele en persoonlijke leven van een vrouw algemeen beschouwd als de eerste feministische zijn. Inspirerende en verslavend lezen. Een echte aanrader.

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