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A review by erinkath
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
4.0
(My true rating is 4.5 stars)
All I can is...wow. This is a fantastic dual biography of two incredible, radical women. My first introduction to Mary Wollstonecraft was in high school, through Virginia Woolf's essay about her. That was my first introduction into feminism. I really enjoyed the essay and then I read parts of A Vindication of the Rights of Women and I was absolutely blown away. That a woman in that time period had the bravery to put her radical ideas out there made in awe of her, just as her own daughter, Mary Shelley, was in awe of her. This biography is comprehensive and super informative. The author did a great job to give historical context to the times the women to show us just how revolutionary they were in their own ways. I have a much deeper respect for these women and the work they produced.
All I can is...wow. This is a fantastic dual biography of two incredible, radical women. My first introduction to Mary Wollstonecraft was in high school, through Virginia Woolf's essay about her. That was my first introduction into feminism. I really enjoyed the essay and then I read parts of A Vindication of the Rights of Women and I was absolutely blown away. That a woman in that time period had the bravery to put her radical ideas out there made in awe of her, just as her own daughter, Mary Shelley, was in awe of her. This biography is comprehensive and super informative. The author did a great job to give historical context to the times the women to show us just how revolutionary they were in their own ways. I have a much deeper respect for these women and the work they produced.