A review by bookishlibrarian
Her Lost Words: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Stephanie Marie Thornton

3.0

In parallel narratives, Her Lost Words follows the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, both accomplished writers and thinkers, and trailblazers for women. The author captured the constraints both women faced and the way they pushed back against them and imagined a different future both for themselves and all women. However, I wish it had included more of their writing lives--a lot of the focus was on their relationships/marriages, and it did feel repetitive at times. It definitely did make me want to revisit A Vindication and read Frankenstein for the first time.