Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft

ISBN: 0060957743

Author: Gordon, Lyndall

Condition: New

Wonderful, and deeply sobering. . . . Lyndall Gordon relates Wollstonecrafts story with the same potent mixture of passion and reason her subject personified.-New York Times Book ReviewThe founder of modern feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the most famous woman in Europe and America in her time. Yet her reputation over the years has suffered-until now. Acclaimed biographer Lyndall Gordon mounts a spirited defense of this brilliant, unconventional woman who held strikingly modern notions of education, single motherhood, family responsibilities, working life, domestic affections, friendships, and sexual relationships.Offering a new interpretation for the 21st century, Gordon paints a vibrant, full portrait of Wollstonecraft, revealing how this remarkable womans genius reverberated through the generations, influencing not only her daughter, Mary Shelley, and other heirs, but early political philosophy in England and America as well-including the ideas of John and Abigail Adams.