Romantic outlaws: the extraordinary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley
by Gordon, Charlotte.
Material type: BookPublisher: Hutchinson 2015ISBN: 9780091958947; 0091958946.Classification number: 828.609 WOLSubject(s): Wollstonecraft 1759-1797 | Shelley 1797-1851 | Women authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography | Women authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography | RomanticismSubject: 'Romantic Outlaws' tells the story of the passionate and pioneering lives of Mary Wollstonecraft, English feminist and author of the landmark book, 'The Vindication of the Rights of Women', and her novelist daughter Mary Shelley, author of 'Frankenstein'. Although mother and daughter, these two women never knew one another, Wollstonecraft died of an infection in 1797 at the age of 38, a week after giving birth. Nevertheless their lives were so closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies so eerily similar, it seems imItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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'Romantic Outlaws' tells the story of the passionate and pioneering lives of Mary Wollstonecraft, English feminist and author of the landmark book, 'The Vindication of the Rights of Women', and her novelist daughter Mary Shelley, author of 'Frankenstein'. Although mother and daughter, these two women never knew one another, Wollstonecraft died of an infection in 1797 at the age of 38, a week after giving birth. Nevertheless their lives were so closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies so eerily similar, it seems im
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