6/21/2023 0 Comments Romantic outlaws bookThe private lives of both Marys were nothing less than the stuff of great Romantic drama, providing fabulous material for Charlotte Gordon, an accomplished historian and a gifted storyteller. Each in her own time fought against the injustices women faced and wrote books that changed literary history. Both women had passionate relationships with several men, bore children out of wedlock, and chose to live in exile outside their native country. Wollstonecraft’s daughter Mary was to follow a similarly audacious path. In 1797, less than two weeks after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft died, and a remarkable life spent pushing against the boundaries of society’s expectations for women came to an end. In Romantic Outlaws, Charlotte Gordon reunites the trailblazing author who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the Romantic visionary who gave the world Frankenstein-two courageous women who should have shared their lives, but instead shared a powerful literary and feminist legacy. Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley have each been the subject of numerous biographies, yet no one has ever examined their lives in one book-until now. This groundbreaking dual biography brings to life a pioneering English feminist and the daughter she never knew. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SEATTLE TIMES.NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
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