My agent who's English said, you know, but everybody knows Mary Shelley and almost no one

knows Mary Wollstonecraft in the same way.

And I think for Americans, when they hear Mary Wollstonecraft, they immediately think

Shelley, the writer of Frankenstein, because she wrote as, so often, Mary Wollstonecraft

Shelley.

And we particularly as Americans, are unless you've studied, you know, women's studies,

we really want to introduce to Mary Wollstonecraft who's considered by so many people the mother

of feminism.

And really one of the great 18th century writers and thinkers, bar none.

So when I started to read about Mary Wollstonecraft, I became completely captivated by her and

compelled and it just seemed obvious that she would generate a lot of energy in me and

could easily sustain a novel if I could figure out how to write it.

That's author and screenwriter Samantha Silva, talking about the genesis of her new book,

Love and Fury, a novel of Mary Wollstonecraft.

Wollstonecraft is part of our October this year and perhaps that's appropriate since

she was the mother of the incredible Mary Shelley of Frankenstein fame.

But Wollstonecraft deserves more of our attention than to just be Mary Shelley adjacent.

She was herself an educator, a translator, an incredible writer and thinker, a pioneering

feminist, and a force of nature.

She is alive and active.

Virginia Woolf said, a century after Wollstonecraft's death, she argues and experiments, we hear

her voice and trace her influence even now, among the living.

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