The life and death of Mary Wollstonecraft (New ed)

One of the most controversial figures of her day, Mary Wollstonecraft published "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman", travelled to revolutionary France and lived through the terror and destruction of the incipient French feminist movement, produced an illegitimate daughter and married William Godwin before dying in childbirth at the age of 38.

First published in 1974, this biography has been reissued to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the publication of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman".