Daughter of Earth and Water: A Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley by Noel Gerson: A Book Review
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. ...