Fr. 19.90

Romantic Outlaws - The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley

English · Paperback

Shipping usually within 1 to 3 working days

Description

Read more

***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4***NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER'A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history's most formidable female intellectuals, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Gordon has reunited mother and daughter through biography, beautifully weaving their narratives for the first time.' Amanda ForemanEnglish feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and author Mary Shelley were mother and daughter, yet these two extraordinary women never knew one another. Nevertheless, their passionate and pioneering lives remained closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies eerily similar. Both women became famous writers and wrote books that changed literary history, had passionate relationships with several men, were single mothers out of wedlock; both lived in exile, fought for their position in society, and interrogated ideas of how we should live. Romantic Outlaws takes the reader on a vivid journey across revolutionary France and Victorian England to explore in this ground-breaking dual biography of the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the author who wrote Frankenstein - mother and daughter - a pair of visionary women, who should have shared a life, but who instead share a powerful literary and feminist legacy.

Product details

Authors Charlotte Gordon, Gordon Charlotte
Publisher Windmill Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 29.02.2016
 
EAN 9780099592396
ISBN 978-0-09-959239-6
No. of pages 672
Dimensions 129 mm x 198 mm x 49 mm
Series WINDMILL BOOKS
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, Biography: writers

Customer reviews

No reviews have been written for this item yet. Write the first review and be helpful to other users when they decide on a purchase.

Write a review

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Write your own review.

For messages to CeDe.ch please use the contact form.

The input fields marked * are obligatory

By submitting this form you agree to our data privacy statement.