Vindication

“Gordon relates Wollstonecraft’s story with the same potent mixture of passion and reason her subject personified . . . Wonderful, and deeply sobering.” —New York Times Book Review

The founder of modern feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the most famous woman in Europe and America in her time. Yet her reputation over the years has suffered—until now. Acclaimed biographer Lyndall Gordon m...