 |  | | | Fanny Wollstonecraft | 26 June 2007 | | |
The life and suicide of a forgotten daughter.
Mary Wollstonecraft’s youngest daughter married the poet Shelley and penned the gothic masterpiece ‘Frankenstein’. But she had another daughter, Fanny, who killed herself in 1816. Fanny's signature was torn from the suicide note, no-one came forward to identify her body and she was buried in a pauper’s grave. However, during her short life she was involved in the same literary circles that her better known sister moved in. Jenni talks to Janet Todd, Professor of English at Aberdeen University, about how Fanny Wollstonecraft has been erased from history.
Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle by Janet Todd is published by Profile Books, ISBN-13: 978-1861979551. | |
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