Romantic Outlaws
Subtitle: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
Publisher: Hutchinson
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 649
ISBN-13: 9780091958947
Description: "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"--
Notes: Source title: Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley