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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
10 reviews
michayla13's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Child death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug use, Incest, Miscarriage, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Trafficking, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and War
rieviolet's review against another edition
4.0
I still think that the book is good; it is very informative and also readable, once you manage to get into the rhythm of it. The language is not overtly complicated or inaccessibly academic.
The book is structured in a sort of dual narrative, following Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley in alternating chapters. While I can understand this authorial choice, sometimes it was still a bit hard to recall what had been going on previously, given this constant switch.
I quite liked that the author did not focus only on their personal lives, but also explored and analysed their body of work, of which I knew very little aside from the "big names" (Frankenstein and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman).
Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Gore, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Torture, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Classism
Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Drug use, Fatphobia, Incest, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Religious bigotry, Acephobia/Arophobia, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation
lindseyhall44's review against another edition
5.0
To anyone interested in the amazing lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelly, I would highly recommend!
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Abandonment
tmickey's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Violence
Minor: Homophobia, Incest, Sexual assault, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Blood, and Murder
lidia7's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent
Moderate: Infidelity, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, and Pregnancy
Minor: Incest, Rape, Abortion, and Cultural appropriation
mariakureads's review against another edition
4.5
I'm saddened to say that before reading this book, I knew very little about either Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, icons to me really, aside from that they were mother and daughter and both writers in their own rights, decades apart from each other. Enough but also not nearly once I got really into this book!
Gordon does a fantastic job of interweaving their histories through alternating chapters as it allowed me to see and grasp their similarities when they didn't even know each other as Wollstonecraft died after giving birth as well as keeping the reader engaged within the timeframe in which these women lived through because those additional paragraphs to the actual world events of the time really helped me see the battle that each was going through.
The similarities are so vivid and surreal as the book is presented in chronological order, starting with Wollstonecraft, allowing for a pace that I found easy to follow and before realizing seeing the differences between them as they were each their own person. It just so happens that thanks to the amount of research and documents presented by Gordon, I really couldn't escape the eeriness of their lives and how almost identical it sounded by the end. The daughter echoing back her mother is what I thought.
I can't believe that all these years later, both women are still having almost an identity crisis thanks in no part to the undoing of their own family members, society's view of them, and the amount of written work that is still being uncovered for both which is helping to shed some light on these two women. I can't imagine what Mary Shelley might have been like with her mother at her side but even more so what new ideas, radical even, that both mother and daughter could have contrived together as Wollstonecraft's words and theology impacted Shelley's work. Oh that would have been such a site.
Big thanks to Gordon for the attention to detail, not just in these women, but all the people that were included, friends and family, but also to the real world that surrounded them. Without those historical notes and nods, a lot may have fallen flat but what rights I have today as a woman are all thanks to all those women who fought and struggled before me, and here are two women that did that.
Graphic: Child death, Death, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent
Moderate: Chronic illness, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Classism
talonsontypewriters's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, War, and Classism
Minor: Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Confinement, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation
herelieshenry's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Incest, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and War
Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Homophobia, Pedophilia, and Rape
It is worth noting there’s also a moderate amount of discussion of capital punishment (particularly during the French Revolution), as well as minor discussion of graverobbing and corpse exhumation. That aside, the content warnings I’ve listed are moreso attributed to the events (& occasionally, people) the book covers than anything seeming to be endorsed by the author. There may be some things I missed, since I took a long break from reading in the middle, but I tried to mark down everything as best I could, based on how much they reoccur and how prominent they are within the biographies.rosianna's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent
queenbeemimi's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death and Suicide
Moderate: Infidelity and Miscarriage