A review by lindzlovesreading
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon

4.0

This was the book I needed. It was like reading a Gothic novel. The Mary's (as I have now come to call them) are saint like in their feminism, which is as ridiculous as it is perfect for a Gothic tone. And I loved it. The parallels between The Mary's don't completely work, because there are two many different beats, even in their tragedies. But the fact that these two women wrote two of the most important books in history is my favorite fact. And yes, Frankenstein is one of the most important books, in just the way we view genre and technology. I will fight you on this. This was such an easy book to sink into for me. I adore this time period. And I adored spending time with these prickly, irreparable intelligent Mary's who dared to imagine and play with ideas.