Vindication: A Life Of Mary Wollstonecraft - Hardcover
A portrait of the author of The Vindication of the Rights of Women traces her pivotal contributions to the founding of feminism, exploring her relationships with three different men and the influence of her ideas on subsequent generations. 20,000 first printing.
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"A sobering and inspirational read for women today. Readers who delve into it will meet a brave, visionary woman."--Richmond Times-Dispatch
"[Wollstonecraft's] aspirations to greatness...keep breaking through Ms. Gordon's wonderfully wrought book like flashes of lightning."--New York Sun
"Gordon relates Wollstonecraft's story with the same potent mixture of passion and reason her subject personified...Wonderful, and deeply sobering."--New York Times Book Review
"Imaginative and intelligent, consistently absorbing... [Gordon] speculates and probes with a freewheeling intelligence that responds to Wollstonecraft's own."--New York Review of Books
"Gordon vindicates this once-vilified 'hyena in petticoats' as a melancholy, complex, heroic feminist, stunningly ahead of her time."--Bust Magazine
"Judicious, sympathetic, intelligent and utterly riveting . . . Gordon rescues Wollstonecraft from both reactionary disdain and soft-focus feminist sentiment."--The Independent
"Rich with new interpretations, sources, and detail . . . Captures the drama of Wollstonecraft's life."--Library Journal (starred review)
"Fierce and wonderful. . . . [Wollstonecraft is] a dazzling character on the brilliant page."--John Leonard, Harper's Magazine
"Exceptional, emotionally overwhelming . . . A 360-degree exploration of Wollstonecraft in her era--and beyond."--Newsday
Rich with new interpretations, sources, and detail . . . Captures the drama of Wollstonecraft s life. --Library Journal (starred review)"
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"[Wollstonecraft's] aspirations to greatness...keep breaking through Ms. Gordon's wonderfully wrought book like flashes of lightning."--New York Sun
"Gordon relates Wollstonecraft's story with the same potent mixture of passion and reason her subject personified...Wonderful, and deeply sobering."--New York Times Book Review
"Imaginative and intelligent, consistently absorbing... [Gordon] speculates and probes with a freewheeling intelligence that responds to Wollstonecraft's own."--New York Review of Books
"Gordon vindicates this once-vilified 'hyena in petticoats' as a melancholy, complex, heroic feminist, stunningly ahead of her time."--Bust Magazine
"Judicious, sympathetic, intelligent and utterly riveting . . . Gordon rescues Wollstonecraft from both reactionary disdain and soft-focus feminist sentiment."--The Independent
"Rich with new interpretations, sources, and detail . . . Captures the drama of Wollstonecraft's life."--Library Journal (starred review)
"Fierce and wonderful. . . . [Wollstonecraft is] a dazzling character on the brilliant page."--John Leonard, Harper's Magazine
"Exceptional, emotionally overwhelming . . . A 360-degree exploration of Wollstonecraft in her era--and beyond."--Newsday
Rich with new interpretations, sources, and detail . . . Captures the drama of Wollstonecraft s life. --Library Journal (starred review)"
Lyndall Gordon lives in Oxford, England. She is the author of highly acclaimed biographies of Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Bronte, T. S. Eliot, and Henry James. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Senior Research Fellow at St. Hilda's College, Oxford.
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0060198028
- ISBN 13 9780060198022
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages562
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