Romantic outlaws : the extraordinary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley / Charlotte Gordon.
"Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) and her daughter Mary Shelley (1797-1851) have each been the subject of numerous biographies by top tier writers, yet no author has ever examined their lives in tandem. Perhaps this is because these two amazing women never knew each other--Wollstonecraft died of infection at the age of 38, a week after giving birth to her daughter. Nevertheless their lives were closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies so eerily similar, it seems impossible to consider one without the other: both became famous writers; both fell in love with brilliant but impossible authors; both were single mothers and had children out of wedlock (a shocking and self-destructive act in their day); both broke out of the rigid conventions of their era and lived in exile; and both played important roles in the Romantic era during which they lived. The lives of both Marys were nothing less than extraordinary, providing fabulous material for Charlotte Gordon, a gifted story teller. She seamlessly weaves their lives together in back and forth narratives, taking readers on a vivid journey across Revolutionary France and Victorian England, from the Italian seaports to the highlands of Scotland, in a book that reads like a richly textured historical novel"--Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400068425
- ISBN: 1400068428
- ISBN: 9780812980479
- Physical Description: xviii, 649 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First United States edition
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2015]
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 609-623) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Chapter 1 A Death and a Birth [1797-1801] 3 -- Chapter 2 Mary Wollstonecraft: The Early Years [1759-1774] 11 -- Chapter 3 Mary Godwin: Childhood and a New Family [1801-1812] 23 -- Chapter 4 Mary" Wollstonecraft: Hoxtox and Bath [1774-1782] 36 -- Chapter 5 Mary Godwin: Scotland, An "Eyry of Freedom" [1810-1814] 49 -- Chapter 6 Mary Wollstonecraft: Independence [1783-1785] 60 -- Chapter 7 Mary Godwin: "The Sublime and Rapturous Moment" [1814] 74 -- Chapter 8 Mary Wollstonecraft: On the Education of Daughters [1785-1787] 87 -- Chapter 9 Mary Godwin: The Break [1814] 99 -- Chapter 10 Mary Wollstonecraft: London [1786-1787] 111 -- Chapter 11 Mary Godwin: London And Bishopsgate [1814-1815] 124 -- Chapter 12 Mary Wollstonecraft: The First Vindication [1787-1791] 142 -- Chapter 13 Mary Godwin: "Mad, Bad and Dangerous To Know" [1816] 155 -- Chapter 14 Mary Wollstonecraft: "A Revolution in Female Manners" [1791-1792] 170 -- Chapter 15 Mary Godwin: Fits of Fantasy [1816] 184 -- Chapter 16 Mary Wollstonecraft: Paris [1792-1793] 199 -- Chapter 17 Mary Shelley: Retribution [1816-1817] 211 -- Chapter 18 Mary Wollstonecraft: In Love [1792] 227 -- Chapter 19 Mary Shelley: Marlow and London [1817-1818] 240 -- Chapter 20 Mary Wollstonecraft: "Motherhood" [1793-1794] 254 -- Chapter 21 Mary Shelley: Italy, "The Happy Hours" [1818-1819] 266 -- Chapter 22 Mary Wollstonecraft: Abandoned [1794-1795] 281 -- Chapter 23 Mary Shelley: "Our Little Will" [1818-1819] 293 -- Chapter 24 Mary Wollstonecraft: "Surely You Will Not Forget Me" [1795] 308 -- Chapter 25 Mary Shelley: "The Mind of a Woman" [1819] 322 -- Chapter 26 Mary Wollstonecraft: Return Home [1795-1796] 331 -- Chapter 27 Mary Shelley: "When Winter Comes" [1819-1820] 345 -- Chapter 28 Mary Wollstonecraft: "A Humane and Tender Consideration" [1796] 360 -- Chapter 29 Mary Shelley: Pisa [1820-1821] 374 -- Chapter 30 Mary Wollstonecraft: In Love Again [1796) 388 -- Chapter 31 Mary Shelley: "League of Incest" [1821-1822] 402 -- Chapter 32 Mary Wollstonecraft: "I Still, Mean To Be Independent" [1797] 418 -- Chapter 33 Mary Shelley: "It's All Over" [1822] 431 -- Chapter 34 Mary Wollstonecraft: "A Little Patience" [1797] 453 -- Chapter 35 Mary Shelley: "The Deepest Solitude" [1823-1828] 465 -- Chapter 36 Mary Wollstonecraft: The Memoir [1797-1801] 484 -- Chapter 37 Mary Shelley: A Writing Life [1832-1836] 498 -- Chapter 38 Mary Wollstonecraft: The Wrongs [1797-1798] 512 -- Chapter 39 Mary Shelley: Ramblings [1837-1848] 519 -- Chapter 40 Mary and Mary: Heroic Exertions 537.
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