Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft

In Sunday's Book Review: 'Vindication: A Life of Mary
Wollstonecraft,' by Lyndall Gordon
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Review by TONI BENTLEY
"Mary Wollstonecraft declared in her revolutionary book of
1792, 'The Vindication of the Rights of Woman,' that not only
had the time come to begin the long slog to selfdom, freedom,
empowerment -- or whatever current feminist term serves --
but that she would be the first of what she called, using the
language of taxonomy, 'a new genus.' ... This Mary was quite
contrary, and her reputation over time, unsurprisingly, has
suffered from this complexity. ...

"In her wonderful, and deeply sobering, new book, Lyndall
Gordon, the distinguished biographer of T. S. Eliot, Virginia
Woolf, Charlotte Bronte and Henry James, tackles this
formidable woman with grace, clarity and much new research.
Despite occasional slips into strangely purple prose ...
Gordon relates Wollstonecraft's story with the same potent
mixture of passion and reason her subject personified."

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