…the author, with her husband and sister, on foot, through part of France and Switzerland…
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(26) Burke v. Wollstonecraft.
“I pause to recollect myself; and smother the contempt I feel rising for your rhetorical flourishes and infantine sensibility.”
The Project’s Beginnings
Like many people, including ones who’ve read Frankenstein, up until the pandemic of 2020 I’d never heard of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel The Last Man. The story of a plague that wipes out the entire human race, leaving one survivor, it was inevitably written up in a few on-line outlets during that scary time lastContinue reading “The Project’s Beginnings”