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Mary and Maria, Matilda
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 3 September 2020
- Run Time
- 12 hours 4 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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This Penguin Classic is performed by Rosalind Eleazar, star of The Personal History of David Copperfield. This definitive edition includes an introduction by Janet Todd.
These three works of fiction - two by Mary Wollstonecraft, the radical author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and one by her daughter Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein - are powerfully emotive stories that combine passion with forceful feminist argument. In Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary, the heroine flees her young husband in order to nurse her dearest friend, Ann, and finds genuine love, while Maria tells of a desperate young woman who seeks consolation in the arms of another man after the loss of her child. And Mary Shelley's Matilda - suppressed for over a century - tells the story of a woman alienated from society by the incestuous passion of her father. Humane, compassionate and highly controversial, these stories demonstrate the strongly original genius of their authors.
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Details
- Author
- Mary Shelley,Mary Wollstonecraft
- Narrator
- Rosalind Eleazar, Kristin Atherton
- Duration
- 12 hours 4 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 September 2020
- ISBN
- 9780241455340
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Classic fiction: general and literary, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Feminism and feminist theory
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Rosalind Eleazar, star of The Personal History of David Copperfield. This definitive edition includes an introduction by Janet Todd. These three works of fiction - two by Mary Wollstonecraft, the radical author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and one by her daughter Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein - are powerfully emotive stories that combine passion with forceful feminist argument. In Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary, the heroine flees her young husband in order to nurse her dearest friend, Ann, and finds genuine love, while Maria tells of a desperate young woman who seeks consolation in the arms of another man after the loss of her child. And Mary Shelley's Matilda - suppressed for over a century - tells the story of a woman alienated from society by the incestuous passion of her father. Humane, compassionate and highly controversial, these stories demonstrate the strongly original genius of their authors.(P) Penguin Audio 2020
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