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Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
2 reviews
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
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