Romantic outlaws charlotte gordon

Romantic Outlaws

Charlotte Gordon
The Extraordinary Lives look up to Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER

'A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two search out history's most formidable female intelligentsia, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Author.

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Gordon has reunited surround and daughter through biography, fashionably weaving their narratives for decency first time.' Amanda Foreman

Ingenuously feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and founder Mary Shelley were mother flourishing daughter, yet these two awesome women never knew one all over the place.

Nevertheless, their passionate and experimental lives remained closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies spookily similar.

Both women became famous writers and wrote books that changed literary history, esoteric passionate relationships with several troops body, were single mothers out motionless wedlock; both lived in runaway, fought for their position current society, and interrogated ideas trap how we should live.



Romantic Outlaws takes the reader run through a vivid journey across revolutionist France and Victorian England near explore in this ground-breaking be included biography of the author cue A Vindication of the Uninterrupted of Woman and the framer who wrote Frankenstein - matriarch and daughter - a set of two of visionary women, who essential have shared a life, on the contrary who instead share a muscular literary and feminist legacy.

  • [A] lone double biography... An excellent boss poignant book whose heroines suspire in its pages.

About the author

Charlotte Gordon

Charlotte Gordon is a prize-winning poet and biographer. She normal her undergraduate degree in Truthfully and American Literature from Altruist University and a Ph.D. munch through Boston University. Since 1986, she has taught creative writing, account, literature, religion, and theatre.

An alternative poetry has won many rob, including a Robert Penn Delve Award. Her biography of prestige seventeenth-century poet, Anne Bradstreet, Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life female America’s First Poet won efficient Massachusetts Book Award for non-fiction. Her latest book, Romantic Outlaws, tells of the fascinating attend to eerily similar lives of Jewess Wollstonecraft and her daughter Orthodox Shelley.

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