Daughter of Earth and Water: A Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

by Noel B. Gerson

Book Overview

This is a story of love and of genius. Of faith and of rebellion. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1549853643
• ISBN13: 9781549853647
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"