Mary and Maria, Matilda, Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary and Maria, Matilda, Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary and Maria, Matilda
Penguin Classics

Author: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley

Narrator: Rosalind Eleazar, Kristin Atherton

Unabridged: 12 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/03/2020


Synopsis

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This Penguin Classic is performed by Rosalind Eleazar, star of The Personal History of David Copperfield. This definitive edition includes an introduction by Janet Todd.

These three works of fiction - two by Mary Wollstonecraft, the radical author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and one by her daughter Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein - are powerfully emotive stories that combine passion with forceful feminist argument. In Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary, the heroine flees her young husband in order to nurse her dearest friend, Ann, and finds genuine love, while Maria tells of a desperate young woman who seeks consolation in the arms of another man after the loss of her child. And Mary Shelley's Matilda - suppressed for over a century - tells the story of a woman alienated from society by the incestuous passion of her father. Humane, compassionate and highly controversial, these stories demonstrate the strongly original genius of their authors.

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About Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797) was an advocate for women's rights, an author, and a philosopher who specialized in essays, novels, and travel narratives. The mother of Mary Shelley, she is often regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers.


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