Romantic Outlaws
2015
This dual biography examines the parallel lives of Mary Wollstonecraft, author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," and her daughter Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author of "Frankenstein," exploring how both women challenged social conventions as writers and thinkers during the Romantic era. Gordon traces the connections between mother and daughter across their respective struggles for intellectual and personal freedom in late 18th and early 19th century England.
Wollstonecraft, mary, 1759-1797Shelley, mary wollstonecraft, 1797-1851Women authorsAuthors, biographyRomanticism