# Maria

Maria by Mary Wollstonecraft has 45,452 words.

## At a glance

1798 unfinished novel by Mary Wollstonecraft.

- **Author:** [Mary Wollstonecraft](https://musael.com/books/authors/mary-wollstonecraft.md) (1759–1797)
- **First published:** 1798
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 45,452
- **Reading time:** 3 h 2 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 4 h 53 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 3 h 47 min | 8 days |
| 250 wpm | 3 h 2 min | 7 days |
| 300 wpm | 2 h 32 min | 6 days |

## Read or listen

Maria is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/134

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 45,452
- Chapters: 17
- Dialogue: 72% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 29.6 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/134 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q890170
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%3A_or%2C_The_Wrongs_of_Woman
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL849217W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/134

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/maria