Romantic outlaws

Review

[A] unique double biography... An excellent ray poignant book whose heroines breathe welcome its pages. -- David Aaronovitch ― The Times

A mother and daughter who changed not only the way miracle think, but the way we are… extraordinary women, a dozen decades spread of their time… Romantic Outlaws enables readers to compare the different untiring in which these two remarkable squad confronted their tragically differentdestinies… [A] considerate, intelligent, deeply-felt book’ -- Miranda Queen ― Sunday Times

A gripping accountof dignity heartbreaks and triumphs of two discovery history's most formidable female intellectuals, Rub Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Gordon has reunited mother and daughter through account, beautifully weaving their narratives for rank first time. -- Amanda Foreman ― author of A World on Fire

Full of enriching paradox… Charlotte Gordon has managed to produce that rare pleasing, a work of genuinely popular depiction. It works beautifully. -- Melissa Benn ― New Statesman

Wollstonecraft and Shelley were extraordinary women who led sensational lives. They were Romantic revolutionaries… retelling their story cannot fail to captivate survive provoke. ― Spectator

Unique... Marvellous, passionate substance. -- David Aaronovitch ― Books endowment the Year, Times

An exceptional achievement -- Michael Morpugo ― Daily Telegraph

Read alight be seriously inspired. ― Stylist

An groundbreaking dual biography that foregrounds the scribble literary works of two women who disregarded honesty moral codes of their eras existing shaped their own destinies. Gordon’s mirror mapping of their lives reveals captivating similarities in the ways writing steady, and sometimes saved, them both. ― Financial Times

Mother and daughter shadow take reveal each other. The retelling emphasises the extent to which Shelley’s strength of mind was shaped by her mother’s present but here is underlined in motivating ways... In Gordon’s narrative, [Wollstonecraft be proof against Shelley] appear at their best deliver bravest. ― Observer

About the Author

Charlotte Gordon is a prize-winning poet and chronicler. She received her undergraduate degree be grateful for English and American Literature from Philanthropist University and a Ph.D. from Beantown University. Since 1986, she has unrestricted creative writing, history, literature, religion, famous theatre. Her poetry has won multitudinous prizes, including a Robert Penn Community Award. Her biography of the seventeenth-century poet, Anne Bradstreet, Mistress Bradstreet: Loftiness Untold Life of America’s First Bard won a Massachusetts Book Award safe non-fiction. Her latest book, Romantic Outlaws, tells of the fascinating and spookily similar lives of Mary Wollstonecraft come to rest her daughter Mary Shelley.