![]() ![]() 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. 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. Gordon portrays Wollstonecraft and Shelley as clever, courageous women who constantly strove to live life on their own terms. In 1797, less than two weeks after giving birth. ![]() In alternate chapters she explores their influences, writing, and unconventional relationships in forensic detail. Author of Mistress Bradstreet, The woman who named God, Romantic Outlaws, Romantic outlaws, Mysteries in Time Activity Book (Mysteries in Time), Mary Shelley, Lynn Williams, When the Grateful Dead Came to St. 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 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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