Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
Charlotte Gordon tells the intertwined lives of Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and her daughter Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Wollstonecraft died days after Mary was born, yet the two women shared bold ideas and unconventional lives. In alternating chapters Gordon follows their loves, travels, writing and struggles against the rules of their times.
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- Shane Parrish: “Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, which is considered the first science fiction novel. And some people know that Mary Wollstonecraft wrote the first philosophical work on the equality of women, and she is usually the only female philosopher included in the pre-modern Western canon.”