A review by fragglerocker
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon

5.0

It's always enjoyable to read about feminists, even more so when they pushed for equal rights in the late 1700's. I had no idea who Mary Wollstonecraft was before reading this book, and only knew that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. Even as these two women built their careers as writers, they were also mothers and had to manage a household. The struggles they had: managing tight finances, keeping a household running, having insufficient help with child rearing all parallel struggles working women still have today, 200+ years later. I look forward to reading Frankenstein -- I had no idea it was so subversive.