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Gordon, Charlotte.
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Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
Women authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography.
Women authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography.
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Philosophers -- England -- Biography.
Feminists -- England -- Biography.
Romanticism -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Gordon, Charlotte.
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
Women authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography.
Women authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography.
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Philosophers -- England -- Biography.
Feminists -- England -- Biography.
Romanticism -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Romantic outlaws : the extraordinary lives of
Mary
Wollstonecraft
and her daughter
Mary
Shelley / Charlotte Gordon.
by
Gordon, Charlotte.
Random House, [2015]
Call #:
921 S5452g
Subjects
Wollstonecraft
,
Mary
,
1759-1797
.
Shelley,
Mary
Wollstonecraft
, 1797-1851.
Women authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography.
Women authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography.
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Philosophers -- England -- Biography.
Feminists -- England -- Biography.
Romanticism -- Great Britain -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781400068425 (hc.)
1400068428 (hc.)
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Description:
xviii, 649 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 609-623) and index.
Summary:
"
Mary
Wollstonecraft
and her daughter
Mary
Shelley 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.
Mary
Wollstonecraft
(1759 – 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. She is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason.
Wollstonecraft
is regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers.
Wollstonecraft
died at the age of thirty-eight, ten days after giving birth to her second daughter. This daughter,
Mary
Wollstonecraft
Godwin, would become the accomplished writer
Mary
Shelley, the author of the gothic novel Frankenstein.
Mary
Shelley also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Charlotte Gordon seamlessly weaves their lives together in back and forth narratives, taking readers on a vivid journey across Revolutionary France and Victorian England, from the Italian seaports to the highlands of Scotland, in a book that reads like a richly textured historical novel"--Provided by publisher.
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