Neglected by her parents and married off young for property, Mary turns to books, charity and friendship. She nurses her beloved friend Ann in Lisbon and there meets Henry, an ailing man whose sensibility answers her own, while the husband she barely knows waits abroad. Wollstonecraft drew on her own friendship with Fanny Blood in writing it.
A short, early novel by the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, of real interest to readers of feminist history. Download the free EPUB.