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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
9 reviews
michayla13's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Suicide, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Animal death, Suicide attempt, Rape, Incest, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Pregnancy, Drug use, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Terminal illness, Religious bigotry, Miscarriage, Medical content, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Pedophilia, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Death, Child death, Cancer, Blood, and Abandonment
Minor: Suicide attempt, Miscarriage, Incest, Drug use, Animal cruelty, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, War, Terminal illness, Racism, Blood, Trafficking, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Rape, and Forced institutionalization
rieviolet's review against another edition
4.0
I still think that the book is good; it is very informative and also readable, once you manage to get into the rhythm of it. The language is not overtly complicated or inaccessibly academic.
The book is structured in a sort of dual narrative, following Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley in alternating chapters. While I can understand this authorial choice, sometimes it was still a bit hard to recall what had been going on previously, given this constant switch.
I quite liked that the author did not focus only on their personal lives, but also explored and analysed their body of work, of which I knew very little aside from the "big names" (Frankenstein and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman).
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Child death, Pregnancy, Medical content, Violence, Mental illness, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Grief, Death, Sexism, and Domestic abuse
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Classism, Torture, Gore, Child abuse, Ableism, Toxic friendship, Cancer, Chronic illness, Adult/minor relationship, Miscarriage, and Infidelity
Minor: Colonisation, Bullying, Animal cruelty, Religious bigotry, Racism, Murder, Acephobia/Arophobia, Drug use, Blood, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Alcoholism, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Rape, and Animal death
lindseyhall44's review against another edition
5.0
To anyone interested in the amazing lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelly, I would highly recommend!
Graphic: Death of parent, Religious bigotry, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Violence
tmickey's review
5.0
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Misogyny, Child death, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Death, Death of parent, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, and Grief
Moderate: Sexual content, Terminal illness, Cancer, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Alcoholism
Minor: Slavery, Murder, Sexual assault, Blood, Homophobia, Incest, and Forced institutionalization
talonsontypewriters's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Terminal illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Grief, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: War, Classism, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Child abuse, Abandonment, Infidelity, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Incest, Child death, Pregnancy, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Colonisation, Homophobia, Confinement, Racial slurs, Racism, Animal cruelty, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Ableism, and Sexual content
henrygravesprince's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death of parent, Misogyny, Grief, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, Child death, Death, Pregnancy, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic friendship, War, Abandonment, Child abuse, Incest, Religious bigotry, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Homophobia, Pedophilia, and Rape
It is worth noting there’s also a moderate amount of discussion of capital punishment (particularly during the French Revolution), as well as minor discussion of graverobbing and corpse exhumation. That aside, the content warnings I’ve listed are moreso attributed to the events (& occasionally, people) the book covers than anything seeming to be endorsed by the author. There may be some things I missed, since I took a long break from reading in the middle, but I tried to mark down everything as best I could, based on how much they reoccur and how prominent they are within the biographies.berodatheelf's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Suicide
rosianna's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, and Suicide
jdill1717's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Child death, Grief, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Suicide