{"product_id":"romantic-outlaws-by-charlotte-gordon","title":"Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRomantic Outlaws\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the first book to tell the story of the passionate and pioneering lives of Mary Wollstonecraft – English feminist and author of the landmark book,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Vindication of the Rights of Women\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e– and her novelist daughter Mary Shelley, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlthough mother and daughter, these two brilliant women never knew one another – Wollstonecraft died of an infection in 1797 at the age of thirty-eight, a week after giving birth. Nevertheless their lives were so closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies so eerily similar, it seems impossible to consider one without the other.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBoth women became famous writers; fell in love with brilliant but impossible men; and were single mothers who had children out of wedlock; both lived in exile; fought for their position in society; and thought deeply about how we should live. And both women broke almost every rigid convention there was to break: Wollstonecraft chased pirates in Scandinavia. Shelley faced down bandits in Naples. Wollstonecraft sailed to Paris to witness the Revolution. Shelley eloped in a fishing boat with a married man. Wollstonecraft proclaimed that women’s liberty should matter to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eeveryone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNot only did Wollstonecraft declare the rights of women, her work ignited Romanticism. She inspired Coleridge, Wordsworth and a whole new generation of writers, including her own daughter, who – with her young lover Percy Shelley – read Wollstonecraft’s work aloud by her graveside. At just nineteen years old and a new mother herself, Mary Shelley composed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e whilst travelling around Italy with Percy and roguish Lord Byron (who promptly fathered a child by Mary’s stepsister). It is a seminal novel, exploring the limitations of human nature and the power of invention at a time of great religious and scientific upheaval. Moreover, Mary Shelley would become the editor of her husband’s poetry after his early death – a feat of scholarship that did nothing less than establish his literary reputation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRomantic Outlaws\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brings together a pair of visionary women who should have shared a life, but who instead shared a powerful literary and feminist legacy. This is inventive, illuminating, involving biography at its best.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mahala Independent Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62602345316682,"sku":"9780099592396","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0760\/5662\/5482\/files\/9780099592396.jpg?v=1783072190","url":"https:\/\/mahala.bg\/products\/romantic-outlaws-by-charlotte-gordon","provider":"Mahala Independent Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}