Join us on the 16th of September from 6:30pm-8:30pm for the launch of Lo! An Amazon! The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot. Click here for details.
A graphic novel from the award-winning creative duo Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot
about Mary Wollstonecraft, foundational feminist philosopher and author.
“It is time to effect a revolution in female manners – time to restore to them their dignity.”
In the Age of Revolutions, with many movements springing up to demand greater liberties
for mankind, Mary Wollstonecraft spoke out for the other “one-half of the human race”:
that of womankind.
Over twenty years before her daughter, Mary Shelley, created the science fiction genre with
Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft’s 1792 manifesto, Vindication of the Rights of Woman,
took the world by storm. Forthright and fearless, she mingled with other radical thinkers of
her time and travelled widely. In the same year she published her magnum opus, she even
ventured alone to Paris during the Reign of Terror.
This graphic biography of the then-controversial and now-legendary Mary Wollstonecraft
comes from the creative partnership of Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot, the award-
winning duo behind Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes, Sally Heathcote: Suffragette, and Armed
with Madness.
Author Biographies
Mary M. Talbot is an academic turned graphic novelist. Her first graphic novel, Dotter of her
Father’s Eyes (with Bryan Talbot), won the 2012 Costa Biography Award. Her more recent,
Rain (2019, with Bryan Talbot), is a rallying cry to protect the planet. Her previous graphic
novels are Sally Heathcote, Suffragette (2014, with Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot),
and The Red Virgin (2016, with Bryan Talbot). Her most recent academic book is Language
and Gender (3rd ed, 2019). She was Visiting Professor of Graphic Narrative at Lancaster
University until 2024. Her previous graphic novel with Bryan Talbot, and published by
SelfMadeHero was Armed with Madness: The Surreal Leonora Carrington (2023).
Multiple award-winning artist Bryan Talbot has been working in comics for over forty years.
He’s produced underground, fantasy and superhero stories such as Batman and Sandman,
and graphic novels including The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, The Tale of One Bad Rat,
Alice in Sunderland, the Grandville series, as well as illustrating the books written by Mary.
They are both founding patrons of The Lakes International Comic Art Festival. Bryan was
awarded a Doctorate in Arts and another in Letters and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature. In 2024, he was inducted into the prestigious Will Eisner Comic Industry Hall of
Fame.
