Vindication A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by Lyndall Gordon HarperCollins, 576 pp., $29.95 Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is remembered chiefly as a kind of double forerunner: She was the mother of ...
THE COMPLETE LETTERS OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE, VOLUME I (1708-1720), collected and edited by Robert Halsband. 468 pages. Oxford, $13.45. Lady Who? A reasonable question, for the world has almost ...
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As a girl in County Cork, the Irish actor Fiona Shaw walked past a statue of the Virgin Mary every day on her way to school. She didn’t care much for the sculpture—”this revolting statue, this ...
Mary (yes, that Mary) is often portrayed as obedient, peaceful and poised, but what happens when we dig deeper? When an author sets out to create a humanized version of our beloved virgin? The result ...
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