Love and Fury: An Interview with Samantha Silva
Wed, Jun 16
|Online Event via Zoom
Author and screenwriter Samantha Silva joins Folio librarian Lillian Dabney in conversation about her new historical novel Love and Fury.
Time & Location
Jun 16, 2021, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM PDT
Online Event via Zoom
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Join Folio librarian Lillian Dabney for a conversation with author Samantha Silva about her richly imagined, heart-wrenching historical novel about pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft: Love and Fury.
Oh, little bird! Another girl, in this world!
These are the first words Mary Wollstonecraft utters to her unnamed newborn after a difficult labor at the end of August, 1797. Those first days they spend together might also be their last, so Mary begins to tell her daughter the story of her life. From defying her own father so that she could educate herself to making a blood pact to never submit to the tyranny of marriage, Mary met the world with equal parts love and fury, refusing to accept a life of traditional womanhood.
Over the course of eleven days, attended by midwife Mrs.Blenkinsop and new father Mr. Godwin, mother and daughter must fight…
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