A Vindication of the Rights of a Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of a Woman by Mary WollstonecraftA key work of proto feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft's readable and impassioned argument is as relevant today as it was two hundred years ago. Before the concept of equality between the sexes was even conceived, Wollstonecraft wrote this book, a treatise of proto feminism that was as powerful and original then as it is now. In it she argues with clarity and originality for the rational education of women and for an increased female contribution to

Princess of Wales

arguing that human tyranny over animals is a wrong comparable to racism and sexism

and as a polymath conversant in all the sciences

I read Bessborough in one sitting

the latter introducing the Crooked Man who is central to the world of The Book of Lost Things - and an afterword from the author

The Iliad not only paints an intimate picture of individual experience

ALL HE DID WAS FALL IN LOVE WITH ME AND THE WORLD TURNED HIM INTO A MONSTER

Alvarez in the Observer

Bea's daughter

including herself

The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon

Julia Donaldson Beautiful illustrations by prize-winning illustrator