Maria wakes in a madhouse where her husband has confined her to seize her fortune and separate her from her baby. Her keeper Jemima tells her own story of poverty and abuse, a fellow inmate, Darnford, wins her heart, and Maria writes her history for her daughter. Wollstonecraft left it unfinished at her death in 1797.
A radical novel of women’s legal powerlessness from the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Download the free EPUB.