Now in paperback, this tells the true story of English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, who she never knew as she died shortly after giving birth to her. Wollstonecraft wrote "The Vindication Of The Rights Of...

Famous for her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley was also infamous in her own time for breaking social and literary conventions, and taking a political and philosophical stance advocating for the rights of women. Charlotte Gordon explores...