Maria wakes in a private madhouse where her husband has confined her, with her child taken and no law on her side. Wollstonecraft was writing it when she died in childbirth at thirty-eight, and it stops mid-sentence with the endings sketched in notes; her widower published the fragment, ruining her reputation for a century by telling the truth about her life.
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) skrev romaner, traktater, brevsamlingar i en tid präglad av upplysning av revolution. Inte bara hennes verk har väckt stor uppmärksamhet utan också hennes för tiden okonventionella liv.