Daughter of Earth and Water: A Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
By Noel Bertram Gerson
In this touching and inspiring biography, Noel Bertram Gerson explores the relationship between Mary Wollstonecraft and Percy Bysshe Shelley, one dogged by tragedy; suicide in both families, the early deaths of their first two children, and finally the death by drowning of Percy at the age of twenty-nine. A tale of love and genius, of faith and rebellion, Gerson celebrates the life of Mary Shelley, one of the most remarkable and brilliant women of her time.