Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life » (New Edition)

Janet Todd is Research Professor of English at the University of Glasgow. She is the editor of A Wollstonecraft Anthology and her writings include The Sign of Angelica: Women, Writing, and Fiction, 1600-1800.

This monumental biography of the mother of feminism re-creates her legacy and retells the story of her fascinating life for a new generation of admirers.

New Yorker

Throughout this humane and absorbing biography, Todd usefully places the writings, like A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in their historical context, but in the end she finds Wollstonecraft's life and her letters more modern in their outspoken sensibility than her formal literary legacy.