A review by beautifulpaxielreads
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

It took me nearly two months to finish Romantic Outlaws, but I am so glad I persevered. The amount of research that Charlotte Gordon did is staggering (over fifty pages of notes!) - and it shows on every single page of this dual biography.

More to come later.

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Content Warnings

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.