Currently Reading #16

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The non-fiction continues with Claire Tomalin's book about Mary Wollstonecraft. I'm loving this book. Not only is it providing insights into Mary's struggle against the two choices offered to women of her time and class: marriage or looking after parents followed by a decline into respectable spinsterhood, but there are moments of irony almost worthy of Jane Austen. Tomalin pulls no punches and, although she's not uncritical of her subject, she is unashamedly on her side.

Great stuff. It's not often you get to curl up round a biography, feeling entertained and warmed.