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001 2014014841
003 DLC
005 20151209075158.0
008 140703s2015 nyua b 001 0ceng
010 $a 2014014841
020 $a9781400068425 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
020 $z9780812996517 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPR5841.W8$bZ716 2015
082 00 $a828/.609$aB$223
084 $aBIO007000$aBIO022000$aHIS015000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aGordon, Charlotte.
245 10 $aRomantic outlaws :$bthe extraordinary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley /$cCharlotte Gordon.
250 $aFirst U.S. edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c[2015]
300 $axviii, 649 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) and her daughter Mary Shelley (1797-1851) have each been the subject of numerous biographies by top tier writers, yet no author has ever examined their lives in tandem. Perhaps this is because these two amazing women never knew each other--Wollstonecraft died of infection at the age of 38, a week after giving birth to her daughter. Nevertheless their lives were closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies so eerily similar, it seems impossible to consider one without the other: both became famous writers; both fell in love with brilliant but impossible authors; both were single mothers and had children out of wedlock (a shocking and self-destructive act in their day); both broke out of the rigid conventions of their era and lived in exile; and both played important roles in the Romantic era during which they lived. The lives of both Marys were nothing less than extraordinary, providing fabulous material for Charlotte Gordon, a gifted story teller. She seamlessly weaves their lives together in back and forth narratives, taking readers on a vivid journey across Revolutionary France and Victorian England, from the Italian seaports to the highlands of Scotland, in a book that reads like a richly textured historical novel"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 609-623) and index.
600 10 $aWollstonecraft, Mary,$d1759-1797.
600 10 $aShelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,$d1797-1851.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Europe / Great Britain.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$u9781400068425.jpg