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Mary and Maria/Matilda
[Paperback - 2004]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Additional Category: Classics
Publisher: Penguin Black Classics Uk | ISBN: 9780140433715 | Pages: 222
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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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, in London, England, to Mary Wollstonecraft, the famous feminist, and her husband William Godwin, the philosopher and political writer. She published her first poem Mounseer Nongtongpaw in 1807 through her father s company. She married poet Percy Shelley in 1816 and two years later published her first novel Frankenstein. She wrote several other books including Valpegra (1823), The Last Man (1826), and the autobiographical Lodore (1835). Mary Shelley is often credited with being the first ever science fiction writer in English. She died on February 1, 1851.

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