{"product_id":"romantic-outlaws-the-extraordinary-lives-of-mary-wollstonecraft-mary-shelley-9780812980479","title":"Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft \u0026 Mary Shelley","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - \u003c\/b\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eTHE SEATTLE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis groundbreaking dual biography brings to life a pioneering English feminist and the daughter she never knew. Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley have each been the subject of numerous biographies, yet no one has ever examined their lives in one book--until now. In \u003ci\u003eRomantic Outlaws, \u003c\/i\u003eCharlotte Gordon reunites the trailblazing author who wrote \u003ci\u003eA Vindication of the Rights of Woman\u003c\/i\u003e and the Romantic visionary who gave the world \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e--two courageous women who should have shared their lives, but instead shared a powerful literary and feminist legacy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1797, less than two weeks after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft died, and a remarkable life spent pushing against the boundaries of society's expectations for women came to an end. But another was just beginning. Wollstonecraft's daughter Mary was to follow a similarly audacious path. Both women had passionate relationships with several men, bore children out of wedlock, and chose to live in exile outside their native country. Each in her own time fought against the injustices women faced and wrote books that changed literary history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The private lives of both Marys were nothing less than the stuff of great Romantic drama, providing fabulous material for Charlotte Gordon, an accomplished historian and a gifted storyteller. Taking readers on a vivid journey across revolutionary France and Victorian England, she seamlessly interweaves the lives of her two protagonists in alternating chapters, creating a book that reads like a richly textured historical novel. Gordon also paints unforgettable portraits of the men in their lives, including the mercurial genius Percy Shelley, the unbridled libertine Lord Byron, and the brilliant radical William Godwin. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Brave, passionate, and visionary, they broke almost every rule there was to break,\" Gordon writes of Wollstonecraft and Shelley. A truly revelatory biography, \u003ci\u003eRomantic Outlaws\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the defiant, creative lives of this daring mother-daughter pair who refused to be confined by the rigid conventions of their era. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eRomantic Outlaws\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[An] impassioned dual biography . . . Gordon, alternating between the two chapter by chapter, binds their lives into a fascinating whole. She shows, in vivid detail, how mother influenced daughter, and how the daughter's struggles mirrored the mother's.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16592837\"\u003eCharlotte Gordon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Trade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/02\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812980479\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0812980476\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO007000\"\u003eLiterary Figures\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO022000\"\u003eWomen\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS015000\"\u003eEurope | Great Britain | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharlotte Gordon\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eMistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Woman Who Named God: Abraham's Dilemma and the Birth of Three Faiths\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also published two books of poetry, \u003ci\u003eWhen the Grateful Dead Came to St. Louis \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Two Girls on a Raft\u003c\/i\u003e. She is an associate professor of English at Endicott College and lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Trade","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43827351224459,"sku":"9780812980479","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_d81f82bd-25aa-4667-9e97-828f681348ba.jpg?v=1778869496","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/romantic-outlaws-the-extraordinary-lives-of-mary-wollstonecraft-mary-shelley-9780812980479","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}