![]() ![]() As a young woman she found employment first as a lady’s companion, then by setting up a school with her sisters and a friend. Being at the mercy of her father’s whims made Wollstonecraft determined to secure her own financial future. Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley is written by Charlotte Gordon and published by Random House. ![]() Wollstonecraft was born into a large family in 1759, and the household had a comfortable existence until her father squandered the family’s money in various failed projects. In Romantic Outlaws, Charlotte Gordon reunites the trailblazing author who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the Romantic visionary who gave the world Frankenstein - two courageous women who should have shared their lives, but instead shared a powerful literary and feminist legacy. Gordon portrays Wollstonecraft and Shelley as clever, courageous women who constantly strove to live life on their own terms. ![]() In alternate chapters she explores their influences, writing, and unconventional relationships in forensic detail. Gordon takes a fresh approach, chronologically comparing and contrasting the women’s fortunes from birth to death. There is, admits Charlotte Gordon, no shortage of biographies about the English feminist philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft or her daughter, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. ![]()
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