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Mary Wollstonecraft |
28 January 2005 |
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A new, revealing biography
For over two centuries the author of the Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft, has provoked strong reactions, and a number of biographies.
Was she a bold champion of woman's rights and social revolution, or a histrionic suicidal harpy who concealed a humiliating reliance on men?
Lyndall Gordon joins Martha to reveal the new research she brings to light in the latest biography of the 'first feminist'.
Mary Wollstonecraft: A New Genus
Lyndall Gordon
Little, Brown
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