Inventive, page-turning, involving biography at its
best.
Romantic Outlaws is the first book to tell the story of the
passionate and pioneering lives of Mary Wollstonecraft - English
feminist and author of the landmark book, The Vindication of the
Rights of Woman - and her novelist daughter Mary Shelley,
author of Frankenstein.
Charlotte Gordon is a prize-winning poet and biographer. She received her undergraduate degree in English and American Literature from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Boston University. Since 1986, she has taught creative writing, history, literature, religion, and theatre. Her poetry has won many prizes, including a Robert Penn Warren Award. Her biography of the seventeenth-century poet, Anne Bradstreet, Mistress Bradstreet- The Untold Life of America's First Poet won a Massachusetts Book Award for non-fiction.
"[A] unique double biography... An excellent and poignant book
whose heroines breathe in its pages. " -- David Aaronovitch * The
Times *
"A mother and daughter who changed not only the way we think, but
the way we are... extraordinary women, a dozen decades ahead of
their time... Romantic Outlaws enables readers to compare the
different ways in which these two remarkable women confronted their
tragically different destinies... [A] thoughtful, intelligent,
deeply-felt book'" -- Miranda Seymour * Sunday Times *
"A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of
history's most formidable female intellectuals, Mary Wollstonecraft
and Mary Shelley. Gordon has reunited mother and daughter through
biography, beautifully weaving their narratives for the first
time." -- Amanda Foreman * author of A World on Fire *
"Full of enriching paradox... Charlotte Gordon has managed to
produce that rare thing, a work of genuinely popular history... It
works beautifully." -- Melissa Benn * New Statesman *
"Wollstonecraft and Shelley were extraordinary women who led
sensational lives. They were Romantic revolutionaries... retelling
their story cannot fail to captivate and provoke." * Spectator
*
"Unique... Marvellous, passionate stuff." -- David Aaronovitch *
Books of the Year, Times *
"An exceptional achievement" -- Michael Morpugo * Daily Telegraph
*
"An innovative dual biography that foregrounds the writing of two
women who disregarded the moral codes of their eras and shaped
their own destinies. Gordon's parallel mapping of their lives
reveals fascinating similarities in the ways writing sustained, and
sometimes saved, them both." * Financial Times *
"Mother and daughter shadow and reveal each other. The retelling
emphasises the extent to which Shelley's life was shaped by her
mother's legacy but here is underlined in thought-provoking ways...
In Gordon's narrative, [Wollstonecraft and Shelley] appear at their
best and bravest." -- Daisy Hay * Observer *
"A most welcome deeper take on the women who scandalized Victorian
England - and whose stories continue to resonate today." * Vogue *
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