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Author of the prizewinning biographies ELIOT'S EARLY YEARS, ELIOT'S NEW LIFE and VIRGINIA WOOLF: A WRITER'S LIFE. Born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, Lyndall received her doctorate from Columbia University and is a fellow of St Hilda's College, Ox

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'Lyndall Gordon is a rare phenomenon; a biographer whose preoccupations and authorial career reveal a flowering towards imaginative truth. This great biography is a biography of a time, a spirit, a way of thinking, that is brave, intelligent, radical, independent and unless we are all soon for the dark, immortal' Candia McWilliam, Herald Gordon's moving tribute brings alive the depth and complexity of the woman, and the intellectual debt that generations of Wollstonecraft's political daughters owe her to this day.' Melissa Benn - The Independent 'Gordon's biographical method is excitin

'Lyndall Gordon is a rare phenomenon; a biographer whose preoccupations and authorial career reveal a flowering towards imaginative truth. This great biography is a biography of a time, a spirit, a way of thinking, that is brave, intelligent, radical, independent and unless we are all soon for the dark, immortal' Candia McWilliam, Herald Gordon's moving tribute brings alive the depth and complexity of the woman, and the intellectual debt that generations of Wollstonecraft's political daughters owe her to this day.' Melissa Benn - The Independent 'Gordon's biographical method is excitin

This biography of the Englishwoman many consider the mother of modern feminism is rich with new interpretations, sources, and detail. Independent scholar Gordon, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life, captures the drama of Wollstonecraft's life, from her difficult childhood to her struggle to support herself as a writer, her ill-fated romance with American adventurer Gilbert Imlay, the birth of her first daughter, her marriage to writer William Godwin, and her death following the birth of her second daughter, Mary. Wollstonecraft's farsighted philosophies of education, human rights, and liberty unfold not only within the context of her private travails but also against the backdrop of history as we walk with her, for example, through the bloody streets of Paris during the revolution. Newly exploited sources-e.g., notes that John Adams scribbled in the margins of his copy of Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman-suggest her broad influence in both Europe and America. This biography joins recent works like Janet Todd's Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life and Caroline Franklin's Mary Wollstonecraft: A Literary Life as the new standards for Wollstonecraft scholarship. Appropriate for academic libraries; essential for women's studies collections.-Linda V. Carlisle, Southern Illinois Univ., Edwardsville Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.