Romantic Outlaws, Charlotte Gordon
Romantic Outlaws, Charlotte Gordon
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Romantic Outlaws
The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley

Author: Charlotte Gordon

Narrator: Susan Lyons

Unabridged: 22 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/28/2015

Synopsis

Charlotte Gordon's new work is a fresh look at the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, who together comprise one of the most illustrious and inspiring mother-daughter pairs in history. Wollstonecraft published the first full articulation of women's rights in 1792, risking her reputation and sometimes her life in pursuit of her radical goals, while her daughter Mary Shelley wrote the masterpiece Frankenstein in 1819, and famously professed her love to the poet Percy Shelley on her mother's grave. Although these two women never really knew each other, their lives were so closely intertwined and eerily similar that it seems impossible to consider one without the other: both became writers; both fell in love with brilliant but impossible men and were single mothers who had children out of wedlock; both struggled to negotiate their need for love and companionship with their need for independence. The narrative takes readers from Revolutionary France to the Scottish Highlands, from Victorian England to the canals of Venice, reading like an engrossing historical novel.

About Charlotte Gordon

Charlotte Gordon is the Distinguished Professor of English at Endicott College. An award-winning author, her work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, among other publications. Her latest book, Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley won the National Book Critics Circle award. She is also the author of Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Story of America's First Poet, and The Woman Who Named God: Abraham's Dilemma and the Birth of Three Faiths. Most recently, she has written the Introduction to Penguin's re-issue of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hannah on May 08, 2024

A fascinating deep dive into the lives of two remarkable women. 🖤 I'm on BookTube again! Come find me at Hello, Bookworm📚🐛 ORIGINAL POST 👇 Click here to watch a video review of on my (old) BookTube channel, From Beginning to Bookend. An intimate look at the lives of two extraordinary women who u......more

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on January 09, 2023

It’s such a tragedy that two of the greatest writers of the romantic literary era never had the chance to know each other, a chance to discuss ideas and to help each other with their craft: they never got chance to talk and to be a proper family. Mary Wollstonecraft died just five days after giving......more

Goodreads review by Abigail on September 10, 2015

This book borders on wrist-breaker status but despite the volume I wish there was more to read. I picked it up as more of a self-education piece and break from fiction, not really thinking about the entertainment factor. I learned so much. I had no idea who Mary Wollstonecraft was or how much hardsh......more

Goodreads review by Chari on October 01, 2018

Guau! qué vidas las de Wollstonecraft y su hija Mary... Ellas, Shelley, Byron, Godwin.. escritores que junto con el resto de integrantes de sus respectivas biografías, demás familiares, como hermanas e hijos, amigos y no tan amigos, son “personajes”, seres, que se van a quedar conmigo por lo hondo q......more

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