![]() This book is set principally in August and September 1797, and works on several levels as an account of a difficult birth and a biography of an unusual woman who rebelled against society’s expectations for girls. Moving in its treatment of a difficult birth and woman who realises she is in danger, this is a powerful picture of a woman who had grown up rebelling against her lot and that of all women. ![]() Her back story is told between the observations of Mrs B, a recent widow who becomes totally committed to helping this unusual woman and her tiny child. ![]() This is not her story, but the story of a woman who had grown up demanding more than conventional marriage. The baby is nicknamed “little bird”, and will grow up to write a novel which overturned expectations as Mary Shelley. ![]() In this novel she is at first presented as a mother, giving birth and failing in health afterwards in the eyes of her midwife, Mrs.Blenkinsop. Mary Wollstonecraft was a writer, thinker and in her own way, a revolutionary. ![]()
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