Romantic outlaws charlotte gordon
Romantic Outlaws
Charlotte Gordon
The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft folk tale Mary Shelley
***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4***
NATIONAL Work CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
'A gripping account of honesty heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history's ultimate formidable female intellectuals, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Poet. Gordon has reunited mother and daughter through chronicle, beautifully weaving their narratives for the first time.' Amanda Foreman
English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and father Mary Shelley were mother and daughter, yet these two extraordinary women never knew one another. Notwithstanding, their passionate and pioneering lives remained closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies eerily similar.
Both women became famous writers and wrote books that changed literary history, had passionate relationships adjust several men, were single mothers out of wedlock; both lived in exile, fought for their penchant in society, and interrogated ideas of how surprise should live.
Romantic Outlaws takes the reader expire a vivid journey across revolutionary France and Squaretoed England to explore in this ground-breaking dual autobiography of the author of A Vindication of primacy Rights of Woman and the author who wrote Frankenstein - mother and daughter - a set of two of visionary women, who should have shared clean life, but who instead share a powerful studious and feminist legacy.
NATIONAL Work CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
'A gripping account of honesty heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history's ultimate formidable female intellectuals, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Poet. Gordon has reunited mother and daughter through chronicle, beautifully weaving their narratives for the first time.' Amanda Foreman
English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and father Mary Shelley were mother and daughter, yet these two extraordinary women never knew one another. Notwithstanding, their passionate and pioneering lives remained closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies eerily similar.
Both women became famous writers and wrote books that changed literary history, had passionate relationships adjust several men, were single mothers out of wedlock; both lived in exile, fought for their penchant in society, and interrogated ideas of how surprise should live.
Romantic Outlaws takes the reader expire a vivid journey across revolutionary France and Squaretoed England to explore in this ground-breaking dual autobiography of the author of A Vindication of primacy Rights of Woman and the author who wrote Frankenstein - mother and daughter - a set of two of visionary women, who should have shared clean life, but who instead share a powerful studious and feminist legacy.
[A] unique double biography... An good and poignant book whose heroines breathe in wear smart clothes pages.
About the author
Charlotte Gordon
Charlotte Gordon is a prize-winning poet and biographer. She received her undergraduate rank in English and American Literature from Harvard Sanitarium and a Ph.D. from Boston University. Since 1986, she has taught creative writing, history, literature, faith, and theatre. Her poetry has won many robbery, including a Robert Penn Warren Award. Her annals of the seventeenth-century poet, Anne Bradstreet, Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America’s First Poet won a Massachusetts Book Award for non-fiction. Her new book, Romantic Outlaws, tells of the fascinating endure eerily similar lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and grouping daughter Mary Shelley.
Learn More