Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman

This is William Godwin's biography of his wife Mary Wollstonecraft; the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Unusually frank for its time; Godwin does not shrink from presenting the parts of Wollstonecraft's life that late 18th century British society would have judged either immoral or in bad taste; such as her close friendship with a woman; her love affairs; her illegitimate child; her suicide attempts and her painful death.