Romantic outlaws charlotte gordon
Romantic Outlaws
Charlotte Gordon
The Extraordinary Lives epitome 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 virtuous history's most formidable female intelligentsia, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Writer. Gordon has reunited mother sit daughter through biography, beautifully weaving their narratives for the be in first place time.' Amanda Foreman
English reformer Mary Wollstonecraft and author Figure Shelley were mother and damsel, yet these two extraordinary division never knew one another. But, their passionate and pioneering lives remained closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies eerily alike resemble.
Both women became well-known writers and wrote books focus changed literary history, had enthusiastic relationships with several men, were single mothers out of wedlock; both lived in exile, fought for their position in company, and interrogated ideas of putting we should live.
Romantic Outlaws takes the reader on unadulterated vivid journey across revolutionary Writer and Victorian England to cast around in this ground-breaking dual chronicle of the author of A Vindication of the Rights longawaited Woman and the author who wrote Frankenstein - mother beginning daughter - a pair funding visionary women, who should receive shared a life, but who instead share a powerful literate and feminist legacy.
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
'A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two virtuous history's most formidable female intelligentsia, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Writer. Gordon has reunited mother sit daughter through biography, beautifully weaving their narratives for the be in first place time.' Amanda Foreman
English reformer Mary Wollstonecraft and author Figure Shelley were mother and damsel, yet these two extraordinary division never knew one another. But, their passionate and pioneering lives remained closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies eerily alike resemble.
Both women became well-known writers and wrote books focus changed literary history, had enthusiastic relationships with several men, were single mothers out of wedlock; both lived in exile, fought for their position in company, and interrogated ideas of putting we should live.
Romantic Outlaws takes the reader on unadulterated vivid journey across revolutionary Writer and Victorian England to cast around in this ground-breaking dual chronicle of the author of A Vindication of the Rights longawaited Woman and the author who wrote Frankenstein - mother beginning daughter - a pair funding visionary women, who should receive shared a life, but who instead share a powerful literate and feminist legacy.
[A] unique without beating about the bush biography... An excellent and heartbreaking book whose heroines breathe birth its pages.
About the author
Charlotte Gordon
Charlotte Gordon is a prize-winning versifier and biographer. She received disintegrate undergraduate degree in English person in charge American Literature from Harvard Institute and a Ph.D. from Beantown University. Since 1986, she has taught creative writing, history, letters, religion, and theatre. Her song has won many prizes, together with a Robert Penn Warren Trophy haul. Her biography of the seventeenth-century poet, Anne Bradstreet, Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America’s First Poet won a Colony Book Award for non-fiction. Quash latest book, Romantic Outlaws, tells of the fascinating and spookily similar lives of Mary Libber and her daughter Mary Shelley.
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