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The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft

by Claire Tomalin

Costa Book · 1974 · Winner
Biography & MemoirISBN 9780141912264

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Costa Book of the YearCosta First Novel Award1974Winner

About the Author

Claire Tomalin (born 20 June 1933) is an English biographer and journalist renowned for her acclaimed works including The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft (1974), The Invisible Woman (1990), Jane Austen: A Life (1997), Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2002, Whitbread Book of the Year), and Charles Dickens: A Life (2011). She has received major awards such as the Whitbread Biography Award (twice), James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Hawthornden Prize, NCR Book Award, and the Bodley Medal (2018), and served as literary editor for The Sunday Times and New Statesman.Claire Tomalin

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