She weaves her riveting tale to give her fragile daughter a reason to live, even as her own strength wanes. Blenkinsop fights for the survival of both mother and newborn, 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. Over the eleven harrowing days that follow, as Mrs. Midwife Parthenia Blenkinsop has delivered countless babies, but nothing prepares her for the experience that unfolds when she arrives at Mary Wollstonecraft's door. Dickens and His Carol, a richly-imagined reckoning with the life of another cherished literary legend: Mary Wollstonecraft – arguably the world's first feministĪugust, 1797. A Best Novel of Summer ( New York Times Book Review)įrom the acclaimed author of Mr.
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