* Stylist * An exceptional achievement - Michael Morpugo * Daily Telegraph * Unique. * Financial Times * Read and be seriously inspired. Gordon's parallel mapping of their lives reveals fascinating similarities in the ways writing sustained, and sometimes saved, them both. * Observer * An innovative dual biography that foregrounds the writing of two women who disregarded the moral codes of their eras and shaped their own destinies. In Gordon's narrative, appear at their best and bravest. The retelling emphasises the extent to which Shelley's life was shaped by her mother's legacy but here is underlined in thought-provoking ways. Mother and daughter shadow and reveal each other.
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. Nevertheless, their passionate and pioneering lives remained closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies eerily similar.īoth 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. Gordon has reunited mother and daughter through biography, beautifully weaving their narratives for the first time.’ Amanda ForemanĮnglish feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and author Mary Shelley were mother and daughter, yet these two extraordinary women never knew one another. ‘A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history’s most formidable female intellectuals, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
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