Mary; Maria; Matilda Paperback - 1993
by Mary Wollstonecraft; Mary Shelley; Janet Todd (Editor)
Summary
In Mary (1788), Mary Wollstonecraft explores the position of an alienated intellectual woman and, in portraying her struggle against the constraints of a claustrophobic feminine world, began a line that would include the more substantial heroines of Jane Eyre and Villette. In the posthumously published Maria (1798) she continues in fiction the arguments of the Vindication. Mary Shelley wrote Matilda in 1819, while in mourning for her first son. William Godwin, Mary's father, found its subject of father-daughter incest so 'disgusting and detestable' that he refused to publish it and the work remained suppressed for over a century.
In her illuminating introduction to this edition Janet Todd explores how these novels are linked, not only through the mother-daughter relationship of their authors, but in their perceptions of feminism and female sexuality and in their autobiographical richness.
First line
Mary, the heroine of this fiction, was the daughter of Edward, who married Eliza, a gentle, fashionable girl, with a kind of indolence in her temper, which might be termed negative good-nature: her virtues, indeed were all of that stamp.
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- Title Mary; Maria; Matilda
- Author Mary Wollstonecraft; Mary Shelley; Janet Todd (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date May 4, 1993
- ISBN 9780140433715 / 0140433716
- Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
- Dimensions 7.77 x 5.06 x 0.62 in (19.74 x 12.85 x 1.57 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Women, English fiction - Women authors
- Dewey Decimal Code 823.608
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