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. 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. 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.

Hardback 0 0 add-to-cart rrp_info:$30.00 productId:107235 bic_code:BGL, D, HBJD1, JFS BGL, D, HBJD1, JFS $30.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. Ruth Scurr is the author of ‘John Aubrey: My Own Life’ (Chatto & Windus) Images: Bridgeman. Romantic Outlaws was the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week on August 10, 2015, and won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award. Romantic Outlaws NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SEATTLE TIMES This groundbreaking dual. Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon - 9781400068425 We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Romantic Outlaws, by Charlotte Gordon, Hutchinson, RRP25, Random House, RRP30, 672 pages. American-cut pages, felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge and slightly off-mint. Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon, 9781400068425, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Both defied convention, had several passionate relationships, bore children out of wedlock, lived in exile abroad, and challenged the injustices faced by women. In their own lifetimes, these women were called whores. Yet, as this dual biography demonstrates, the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the visionary who gave the world Frankenstein had much in common. Romantic Outlaws:The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley won the National Book Critics Circle award on March 18, 2016.

520658 Romantic Outlaws 5.99 7.99 GBP OutOfStock /Sale /PS9 /Clearance/Categories/Biography & True Stories /Clearance/Categories/History Mary Shelley never knew her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, who died two weeks after giving birth to her in 1797.