Run Them Ashore
Author: Samantha Silva (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Now, daughter, I'm to tell you a story to coax you into the world ...' Justice. Equality. Life lived to its fullest. These are the tenets at the heart of Samantha Silva's richly rendered imagining of Mary Wollstonecraft's life; the mother of Mary Shelley, and arguably the world's first feminist. August, 1797. When Mary Wollstonecraft's labour begins on a fine summer's day everything appears normal, and she anticipates...