| Record Number |
790580 |
| ISBN |
9780099592396 (paperback) |
| Author |
Gordon, Charlotte author. |
| Title |
Romantic outlaws : the extraordinary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley / Charlotte Gordon. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Windmill Books, 2016. |
| ©2015. |
| Pagination etc. |
xx, 649 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm. |
| Contents note |
First published: US : Random House, 2015. |
| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary Note |
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) and her daughter Mary Shelley (1797-1851) have each been the subject of numerous biographies by top tier writers, yet no author has ever examined their lives in tandem. Perhaps this is because these two amazing women never knew each other -- Wollstonecraft died of infection at the age of 38, a week after giving birth to her daughter. Nevertheless their lives were closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies so eerily similar, it seems impossible to consider one without the other: both became famous writers; both fell in love with brilliant but impossible authors; both were single mothers and had children out of wedlock (a shocking and self-destructive act in their day); both broke out of the rigid conventions of their era and lived in exile; and both played important roles in the Romantic era during which they lived. |
| Subject - Name |
Wollstonecraft, Mary, -- 1759-1797 |
| Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, -- 1797-1851 |
| Subject |
Women authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography |
| Women authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography |
| Romanticism -- Great Britain |
| Biographies. |
| Shelf Location |
828.609 GORD |
