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Silva, Samantha.
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Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
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Silva, Samantha.
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
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Love
and
fury
: a
novel
of
Mary
Wollstonecraft
/ Samantha Silva.
by
Silva, Samantha.
Flatiron Books, 2021.
Call #:
FICTION SIL
Subjects
Wollstonecraft
,
Mary
, 1759-1797 -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781250159113 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
275 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"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"--Publisher.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
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