Penguin Publishing Group. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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This book brings together three extraordinary novels by an extraordinary pair, Mary Wollstonecraft, radical feminist and author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman , and Mary Shelley, her daughter, author of Frankenstein . In Mary (1788), Mary Wollstonecraft explores the position of an alienated intellectual woman and, in portraying her struggle against the constraints of a claustrophobic feminine world, began a line that would include the more substantial heroines of Jane Eyre and Villette. In the posthumously published Maria (1798) she continues in fiction the arguments of the Vindication. Mary Shelley wrote Matilda in 1819, while in mourning for her first son. William Godwin, Mary's father, found its subject of father-daughter incest so 'disgusting and detestable' that he refused to publish it and the work remained suppressed for over a century. In her illuminating introduction to this edition Janet Todd explores how these novels are linked, not only through the mother-daughter relationship of their authors, but in their perceptions of feminism and female sexuality and in their autobiographical richness.

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Bookseller: Better World Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: GRP9596939
Title: Mary; Maria; Matilda
Author: Shelley, Mary, Wollstonecraft, Mary
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0140433716
ISBN 13: 9780140433715
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Place of Publication: E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.s.a.
This edition first published: May 4, 1993

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