History from a Woman's Perspective- A Book Blog

Her Lost Words: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley Author: Stephanie Marie Thornton Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Berkley Release Date: 2023 Pages: 446 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to Frankenstein , a tale of two literary legends—a mother and daughter—discovering each other and finding themselves along the way, from USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Marie Thornton.         1792. As a child, Mary Wollstonecraft longed to disappear during her father’s violent rages. Instead, she transforms herself into the radical author of the landmark volume A Vindication of the Rights of Woman , in which she dares to propose that women are equal to men. From conservative England to the blood-drenched streets of revolutionary France, Mary refuses to bow to society’s conventions and instead supports herself with her pen until an illicit love affair challenges...

The Determined Heart: The Tale of Mary Shelley and Her Frankenstein Author: Antoinette May Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Lake Union Publishing Release Date: 2015 Pages: 412 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: The Determined Heart reveals the life of Mary Shelley in a story of love and obsession, betrayal and redemption.      The daughter of political philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley had an unconventional childhood populated with the most talented and eccentric personalities of the time. After losing her mother at an early age, she finds herself in constant conflict with a resentful stepmother and a jealous stepsister. When she meets the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, she falls deeply in love, and they elope with disastrous consequences. Soon she finds herself destitute and embroiled in a torturous love triangle as Percy takes Mary’s stepsister as a lover. Over the next severa...

Daughter of Earth and Water: A Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Author: Noel Gerson Genre: History, Nonfiction, Biography Publisher: Endeavour Press Release Date: 2015 Pages: 223 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: Mary Wollstonecraft was fifteen when, in 1813, she met the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.       A disciple of Mary’s famous father, the philosopher William Godwin (her mother was the great feminist Mary Wollstonecraft), Shelley himself was only twenty, though he was married and soon to be a father.       Mary and Shelley fell in love the next summer; and several months later they ran away together.       Thus began one of the most tragic, poignant, and, in all respects, brilliant relationships between a woman and a man that has ever been recorded.       Shelley went on writing the poetry that was to make him one of the immortals.  ...