Vindication A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by Lyndall Gordon HarperCollins, 576 pp., $29.95 Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is remembered chiefly as a kind of double forerunner: She was the mother of ...
Mary (yes, that Mary) is often portrayed as obedient, peaceful and poised, but what happens when we dig deeper? When an author sets out to create a humanized version of our beloved virgin? The result ...