Exhibitions at The Research Libraries

Visionary Daughters of Albion: A Bicentenary Celebration of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley

From May 3, 1997 through September 13, 1997
Edna Barnes Salomon Room (Third Floor)
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 5th Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788 (directions)

In the summer of 1797, Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), died shortly after having given birth to the future Mary Shelley, author of the enduring classic Frankenstein (1818) and wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. This exhibition offers a glimpse into the lives and works of these two important figures and brings into focus the intellectual milieu in which they flourished. On display are not only their writings--early editions, manuscripts, and correspondence--but also a number of portraits and prints, contemporary and modern, which bring the subjects and their times to life.

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