How Long to Read Daughter of Earth and Water: a Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

How Long Does it Take to Read Daughter of Earth and Water: a Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 43 minutes to read Daughter of Earth and Water: a Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley by Noel Bertram Gerson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This is a story of love and of genius. Of faith and of rebellion. Mary Wollstonecraft was fifteen when, in 1813, she met the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. A disciple of Mary's famous father, the philosopher William Godwin (her mother was the great feminist Mary Wollstonecraft), Shelley himself was only twenty, though he was married and soon to be a father. Mary and Shelley fell in love the next summer; and several months later they ran away together.Thus began one of the most tragic, poignant, and, in all respects, brilliant relationships between a woman and a man that has ever been recorded. Shelley went on writing the poetry that was to make him one of the immortals. And Mary, as the result of a contest to see who could produce the best tale of the supernatural, wrote the classic Frankenstein. She was nineteen when she completed Frankenstein, which was at first published anonymously because of the prejudice at the time against female writers.Though they married in 1816, following the suicide of Shelley's wife, Mary and Shelley were for all their time together considered scandalous for their behaviour; in fact, they were both quite prudish and disapproved, for example, of the celebrated sexual exploits of their friend Lord Byron. Their lives were dogged by tragedy: suicide in both families, the early deaths of their first two children, and, finally, the death by drowning of Percy Bysshe Shelley at the age of twenty-nine.Mary Shelley was one of the most remarkable and celebrated women of her time, and for all her happiness with her husband, life was not kind to her. But she never went under, and her story is touching, real, inspiring.Noel Bertram Gerson (1913-1988) was a prolific American author, who wrote 325 books under his own name and under several pseudonyms. He channelled his own wartime experience in military intelligence into many of his novels, as well as writing widely about American history. His titles include Liner, The Conqueror's Wife, The Great Rogue: A Biography of Captain John Smith and I'll Storm Hell: A Novel of Mad Anthony Wayne. Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher. For more information on our titles please sign up to our newsletter at www.endeavourpress.com. Each week you will receive updates on free and discounted ebooks. Follow us on Twitter: @EndeavourPress and on Facebook via http://on.fb.me/1HweQV7. We are always interested in hearing from our readers. Endeavour Press believes that the future is now.

How long is Daughter of Earth and Water: a Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley?

Daughter of Earth and Water: a Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley by Noel Bertram Gerson is 222 pages long, and a total of 55,944 words.

This makes it 75% the length of the average book. It also has 68% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Daughter of Earth and Water: a Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 5 minutes to read Daughter of Earth and Water: a Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley aloud.

What Reading Level is Daughter of Earth and Water: a Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley?

Daughter of Earth and Water: a Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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