
Romantic Outlaws
The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
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Susan Lyons
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Charlotte Gordon
Charlotte Gordon's new work is a fresh look at the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, who together comprise one of the most illustrious and inspiring mother-daughter pairs in history. Wollstonecraft published the first full articulation of women's rights in 1792, risking her reputation and sometimes her life in pursuit of her radical goals, while her daughter Mary Shelley wrote the masterpiece Frankenstein in 1819, and famously professed her love to the poet Percy Shelley on her mother's grave.
Although these two women never really knew each other, their lives were so closely intertwined and eerily similar that it seems impossible to consider one without the other: Both became writers; both fell in love with brilliant but impossible men, and were single mothers who had children out of wedlock; both struggled to negotiate their need for love and companionship with their need for independence. The narrative takes listeners from Revolutionary France to the Scottish Highlands, from Victorian England to the canals of Venice, flowing like an engrossing historical novel.
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I loved this book and I am mostly a fiction reader. It was a fascinating story and I learned so much about the period and was constantly grateful as a woman to be living right now. I have such admiration for the courage of both women and what they accomplished against great odds. Didn't want to stop listening to it.Beyond Expectations
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Brilliant Accurate History.
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I was particularly impressed with Mary Shelley Godwin, the author of Frankenstein as well as three other novels, many essays, an encyclopedia more or less of literary men of Spain, Portugal and France, as well as a 4-volume complete poetry of Percy Shelley.
The narrator of this book was excellent and the story is definitely worth a read or listen. Gordon did an excellent job in writing Romantic Outlaws.
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