Her Lost Words by Stephanie Marie Thornton
448 pages, Paperback
Publication March 28, 2023
Genre: Historical Fiction
Taken from Goodreads: From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to Frankenstein, a tale of two literary legends--a mother and daughter--discovering each other and finding themselves along the way, from USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Marie Thornton.
1792. As a child, Mary Wollstonecraft longed to disappear during her father's violent rages. Instead, she transforms herself into the radical author of the landmark volume A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she dares to propose that women are equal to men. From conservative England to the blood-drenched streets of revolutionary France, Mary refuses to bow to society's conventions and instead supports herself with her pen until an illicit love affair challenges her every belief about romance and marriage. When she gives birth to a daughter and is stricken with childbed fever, Mary fears it will be her many critics who recount her life's extraordinary odyssey...
1818. The daughter of infamous political philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft, passionate Mary Shelley learned to read by tracing the letters of her mother's tombstone. As a young woman, she desperately misses her mother's guidance, especially following her scandalous elopement with dashing poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary struggles to balance an ever-complicated marriage with motherhood while nursing twin hopes that she might write something of her own one day and also discover the truth of her mother's unconventional life. Mary's journey will unlock her mother's secrets, all while leading to her own destiny as the groundbreaking author of Frankenstein.
A riveting and inspiring novel about a firebrand feminist, her visionary daughter, and the many ways their words transformed our world.
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Meet Stephanie Marie Thornton (Taken from her website): I’m a writer, librarian, and high school history teacher who has been obsessed with forgotten women from history since I was twelve. My newest book, Her Lost Words, is a tale of two literary legends–Mary Shelley & her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft–who both shaped the world with their words.
Prior to turning my attention to the Cold War
with A Most Clever Girl: A Novel of an American Spy, I wrote about
two women closely connected to the White House. And They Called It
Camelot: A Novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis is an intimate
portrait of America’s most iconic First Lady while American
Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt, tells the story
of Theodore Roosevelt’s hellion of a daughter and how she became Washington’s
Other Monument.
My first two novels, The
Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora and Daughter of
the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt reimagine the lives of two of
history’s forgotten women: Theodora of the Byzantine Empire and Pharaoh
Hatshepsut.
My third and fourth books center around the
women who stood behind the world’s greatest conquerors. The Tiger
Queens is the story of Genghis Khan’s wife and daughters,
while The Conqueror’s Wife tells of the women who both loved
and hated Alexander the Great. With my love of the ancient world, I
also joined the H Team to help pen a collaborative novel, Song of War:
A Novel of Troy in which I put a new spin on the story of Cassandra,
King Priam’s cursed seer of a daughter.
I live with my husband and daughter in Alaska,
where I enjoy hiking, baking, and beekeeping, and am always at work on my next
novel.
You can find me on Twitter as @StephMThornton and I’m also
on Goodreads, Facebook, and Instagram.
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