Nevertheless, their passionate and pioneering lives remained closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies eerily similar.īoth women became famous writers and wrote books that changed literary history, had passionate relationships with several men, were single mothers out of wedlock both lived in exile, fought for their position in society, and interrogated ideas of how we should live. Gordon has reunited mother and daughter through biography, beautifully weaving their narratives for the first time.' Amanda ForemanĮnglish feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and author Mary Shelley were mother and daughter, yet these two extraordinary women never knew one another. 'A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history's most formidable female intellectuals, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER Romantic Outlaws is the first book to tell the story of the passionate and pioneering lives of Mary Wollstonecraft – English feminist and author of the landmark book, The Vindication of the Rights of Woman – and her novelist daughter Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Inventive, page-turning, involving biography at its best.
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