Stephanie Marie Thornton

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Florida

A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley

From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to Frankenstein, a tale of two literary legends-a mother and daughter-discovering each other and finding themselves along the way, from USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Marie Thornton.

1792. As a child, Mary Wollstonecraft longed to disappear during her father's violent rages. Instead, she transforms herself into the radical author of the landmark volume A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she dares to propose that women are equal to men. From conservative England to the blood-drenched streets of revolutionary France, Mary refuses to bow to society's conventions and instead supports herself with her pen until an illicit love affair challenges her every belief about romance and marriage. When she gives birth to a daughter and is stricken with childbed fever, Mary fears it will be her many critics who recount her life's extraordinary odyssey...

1815. The daughter of infamous political philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft, passionate Mary Shelley learned to read by tracing the letters of her mother's tombstone. As a young woman, she desperately misses her mother's guidance, especially following her scandalous elopement with dashing poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary struggles to balance an ever-complicated marriage with motherhood while nursing twin hopes that she might write something of her own one day and also discover the truth of her mother's unconventional life. Mary's journey will unlock her mother's secrets, all while leading to her own destiny as the ground-breaking author of Frankenstein.

A riveting and inspiring novel about a firebrand feminist, her visionary daughter, and the many ways their words transformed our world.

Her Lost Words

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New book with publisher’s remainder mark on bottom edge. 

Massachusetts

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A Vindication on the Rights of Woman is a powerful and persuasive piece of writing that should be read by all to get a better, more open-minded view of the world.

A Vindication on the Rights of Woman

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When I purchased it online, the last page of the book has writing on it. But book is still in good condition. Please see photos for reference.

Illinois

Emily W. Sunstein

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Arizona

Mary Wollstonecraft, author of the eighteenth-century classic, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, did not march through life toward specific goals of feminism. Instead she fought her way to personal independence with a passionate, stubborn intensity at a time when women-presumed inferior-were narrowly circumscribed by law, custom, and religious belief. She demanded also a ration of happiness and sexual fulfillment, refusing to conform to the model of a submissive, decorative, domestically useful woman. Possessed of great intellectual ambitious, and largely self-educated, she rebelled against injustice everywhere she perceived it, and gradually became a political radical.

A Different Face

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Samantha Silva

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Michigan

A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft

From the acclaimed author of Mr. Dickens and His Carol, a richly-imagined reckoning with the life of another cherished literary legend: Mary Wollstonecraft – arguably the world’s first feminist August, 1797. Midwife Parthenia Blenkinsop has delivered countless babies over the course of her career, and when she arrives at Mary Wollstonecraft’s door, everything appears normal. But after the baby girl is delivered, the women will spend the next harrowing days together, fighting for the survival of both mother and daughter. Over those eleven days, Mary Wollstonecraft recounts the life she dared to live amidst the impossible constraints and prejudices of the late 18th century, rejecting the tyranny of men and marriage, risking everything to demand equality for herself and all women. She weaves her riveting tale to keep her fragile daughter alive and give her a reason to fight, even as her own strength wanes. Wollstonecraft’s urgent story of loss and triumph forms the heartbreakingly brief intersection between the lives of a mother and daughter who will change the arc of history and thought for centuries to come. In radiant, emotionally gripping prose, Samantha Silva delivers an ode to the dazzling life of Mary Wollstonecraft, one of the world's most influential thinkers and mother of the famous novelist Mary Shelley. But at its heart, Love and Fury is a story about the power of a woman reclaiming her own narrative and passing along that legacy to her daughter.

Love and Fury

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Mary Wollstonecraft

“It is time to effect a revolution in female manners— time to restore to them their lost dignity—and make them , as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world.   —Mary Wollstonecraft

New Jersey

"It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain, must be obtained by their charms and weakness." —Mary Wollstonecraft Composed in 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft's seminal feminist tract A Vindication of the Rights of Woman broke new ground in its demand for women's education. A Vindication remains one of history's most important and elegant manifestos against sexual oppression. In her introduction, renowned socialist feminist Sheila Rowbotham casts Wollstonecraft's life and work in a radical new light.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Fascinating retelling loosely based on the life of Mary Wollstonecraft. #fiction #feminism #feminist #retelling #marywollstonecraft #hardcover 

California

Leaving her uncomprehending family behind, a gifted young woman becomes a writer and travels to London, where she is taken under the wing of artist Henry Fuseli, poet William Blake, and writer William Godwin

Vindication

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A manifesto for women's rights stresses the need for the education of women, defines the female character, and applies the egalitarian principles of the era to women.

This book has stickies and notes neatly inside. Many people look for this to help with studies.

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of emancipation- an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner. Mary Wollstonecraft's work was received with a mixture of admiration and outrage - Walpole called her 'a hyena in petticoats' - yet it established her as the mother of modern feminism.

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