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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
14 reviews
martha_w's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Child death and Suicide
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
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
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.beautifulpaxielreads's review against another edition
4.5
More to come later.
Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent
Moderate: Homophobia, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Fatphobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, and Murder
One mention of the g**** (anti-Ziganist) slur.claireemma23's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Child death, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
berodatheelf's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, and Pregnancy