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  • Love and Fury

  • A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft
  • By: Samantha Silva
  • Narrated by: Ell Potter
  • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (28 ratings)

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Love and Fury

By: Samantha Silva
Narrated by: Ell Potter
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Publisher's summary

From the acclaimed author of Mr. Dickens and His Carol, a richly imagined reckoning with the life of another cherished literary legend: Mary Wollstonecraft - arguably the world’s first feminist

August, 1797. Midwife Parthenia Blenkinsop has delivered countless babies, but nothing prepares her for the experience that unfolds when she arrives at Mary Wollstonecraft’s door. Over the 11 harrowing days that follow, as Mrs. Blenkinsop fights for the survival of both mother and newborn, Mary Wollstonecraft recounts the life she dared to live amidst the impossible constraints and prejudices of the late 18th century, rejecting the tyranny of men and marriage, risking everything to demand equality for herself and all women. She weaves her riveting tale to give her fragile daughter a reason to live, even as her own strength wanes. Wollstonecraft’s urgent story of loss and triumph forms the heartbreakingly brief intersection between the lives of a mother and daughter who will change the arc of history and thought.

In radiant prose, Samantha Silva delivers an ode to the dazzling life of Mary Wollstonecraft, one of the world's most influential thinkers and mother of the famous novelist Mary Shelley. But at its heart, Love and Fury is a story about the power of a woman reclaiming her own narrative to pass on to her daughter, and all daughters, for generations to come.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

“Astonishing and groundbreaking. Silva’s Wollstonecraft is one of the most complex, kind and endearing characters in recent historical fiction, simultaneously strong and heartbreakingly vulnerable. A provocative, inspiring and timely novel, Love and Fury chronicles not only a great historical figure but, just as movingly, a woman, wife and mother who learns to find love and home within herself.” (Natalie Jenner, best-selling author of The Jane Austen Society)

©2021 Samantha Silva and Caroline Bleeke (P)2021 Macmillan Audio
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I will listen and read again and again… May life be so clear and beautiful. Thank you Mary Wollstonecraft.

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I couldn’t wait for this book to end…

Over-dramatic, confusing story. Mary W deserves better. And way over top philosophizing in the midst of the story.
I was excited to read it; I am excited to be done with it.

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