Claire Tomalin

Broschiertes Buch

The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft

Beschreibung

Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She published A Vindication of the Rights of Women; travelled to revolutionary France and lived through the Terror and the destruction of the incipient French feminist movement; and produced an illegitimate daughter.

Autor

Claire Tomalin was literary editor of the New Statesman then the Sunday Times before leaving to become a full-time writer. Her first book, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, won the Whitbread First Book Award, and she has since written a number of highly acclaimed and bestselling biographies. They include Jane Austen: A Life, The Invisible Woman, a definitive account of Dickens' relationship with the actress Ellen Ternan, which won three major literary awards, and Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self was Whitbread Book of the Year in 2002. In the highly acclaimed Charles Dickens: A Life, she presents a full-scale biography of our greatest novelist. She is married to the writer Michael Frayn.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780241963319
• ISBN-10: 0241963311
• Artikelnr.: 35069342