{"product_id":"the-life-and-death-of-mary-wollstonecraft-by-claire-tomalin","title":"'The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft' by Claire Tomalin","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none [\u0026amp;:has([data-writing-block])\u0026gt;*]:pointer-events-auto R6Vx5W_threadScrollVars scroll-mb-[calc(var(--scroll-root-safe-area-inset-bottom,0px)+var(--thread-response-height))] scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-8 [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+\u0026amp;]:mt-1\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert wrap-break-word w-full dark markdown-new-styling\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eWollstonecraft emerges here as intellectually formidable, emotionally volatile, politically serious and frequently difficult: governess, teacher, translator, reviewer, revolutionary observer, lover, mother and eventually the author of \u003cem\u003eA Vindication of the Rights of Woman\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTomalin is very attentive to the friction between Wollstonecraft’s abstract commitments to liberty and reason and the much messier demands of dependency, love, money, work and female respectability. Written in the 1970s, the biography belongs to an important period in Wollstonecraft’s modern recovery, when feminist scholarship was dismantling the long afterlife of William Godwin’s damagingly candid memoir of his wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTomalin allows contradiction and temperament to remain visible. The result is much more interesting than sainthood. It also gives excellent social texture to eighteenth-century women’s work, radical publishing circles, revolutionary politics and the strange intellectual world around Godwin, Fuseli, Joseph Johnson and the early British feminist movement. Tomalin’s debut won the 1974 Whitbread First Book Award. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHarcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1974. First American edition, first printing, stated “First American edition” with full B C D E letter line — the first-printing convention used by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich during this period. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e Hardcover, 316pp, with original illustrated dust jacket. ISBN 0-15-151539-5. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e Jacket shows moderate age wear, rubbing and edge wear, with some surface marking\/spotting visible to front panel; boards and text block appear sound, pages clean and gently aged. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45947277312083,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/womenintranslation_18.png?v=1786357557","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/the-life-and-death-of-mary-wollstonecraft-by-claire-tomalin","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}