David Aaronovitch * The Times *Ī mother and daughter who changed not only the way we think, but the way we are. A n excellent and poignant book whose heroines breathe in its pages. Publisher: Cornerstone ISBN: 9780099592396 Number of pages: 672 Weight: 570 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 49 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Romantic Outlaws takes the reader on a vivid journey across revolutionary France and Victorian England to explore in this ground-breaking dual biography of the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the author who wrote Frankenstein - mother and daughter - a pair of visionary women, who should have shared a life, but who instead share a powerful literary and feminist legacy. Nevertheless, their passionate and pioneering lives remained closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies eerily similar.īoth women became famous writers and wrote books that changed literary history, had passionate relationships with several men, were single mothers out of wedlock both lived in exile, fought for their position in society, and interrogated ideas of how we should live. Gordon has reunited mother and daughter through biography, beautifully weaving their narratives for the first time.' Amanda ForemanĮnglish feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and author Mary Shelley were mother and daughter, yet these two extraordinary women never knew one another. 'A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history's most formidable female intellectuals, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley.
Romantic Outlaws takes the reader on a vivid journey across revolutionary France and Victorian England to explore in this ground-breaking dual biography of the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the author who wrote Frankenstein - mother and daughter - a pair of visionary women, who should have shared a life, but who instead share a powerful literary and feminist legacy.NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
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