I’m grateful to the Alexa Rose Foundation and the Idaho Commission on the Arts for making my work possible, and the work of so many artists.
I’m always grateful to my father, who is the reason I’m a writer. But any book I write is for my children—Atticus, Phoebe, and Olive—a record of things I’ve meant to tell them, or that bear repeating, but also everything that they’ve taught me. This one is also for my best friend and touchstone, Josie Fretwell, who can run a pandemic reading group like nobody’s business, but who has also, for so many years, held my hand on this thorny, astonishing trip of being human, and a woman, in a world such as this. We’ve navigated so much of what’s in this book, as all women do: desire, dependence, despair, love, freedom, power, purpose. We grew up together, sometimes flailing, as we figured out how to argue for our subjectivity, our experience, our needs, as equal to any man’s—and not back down. I can never remember if she’s sun and I’m moon, or the other way around. We take turns, like light and shadow. I cannot imagine what my life would be without her.
Finally, David Nevin is my rock, the man who reads to me every night in his rich, honeyed voice that tells me everything will be all right, and if not, that love, and books, are the beauty we have right now.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
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Acknowledgments
Also by Samantha Silva
About the Author
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
LOVE AND FURY. Copyright © 2021 by Samantha Silva. All rights reserved. For information, address Flatiron Books, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.
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Cover design by Keith Hayes
Jacket photography: flower © Christie’s Images/Bridgeman Images; woman © Hemis/Alamy; second woman © A. Dagli Orti/De Agostini Picture Library/Bridgeman Images
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Silva, Samantha, author.
Title: Love and fury: a novel of Mary Wollstonecraft / Samantha Silva.
Description: First edition. | New York: Flatiron Books, 2021.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020057502 | ISBN 9781250159113 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781250159106 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759–1797—Fiction. | Mothers and daughters—Fiction. | Women—England— History—18th century—Fiction. | GSAFD: Biographical fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3619.I544345 L68 2021 | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020057502
eISBN 9781250159106
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