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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
11 reviews
michayla13's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Suicide, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Animal death, Suicide attempt, Rape, Incest, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Pregnancy, Drug use, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Terminal illness, Religious bigotry, Miscarriage, Medical content, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Pedophilia, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Death, Child death, Cancer, Blood, and Abandonment
Minor: Suicide attempt, Miscarriage, Incest, Drug use, Animal cruelty, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, War, Terminal illness, Racism, Blood, Trafficking, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Rape, and Forced institutionalization
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: Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Child death, Pregnancy, Medical content, Violence, Mental illness, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Grief, Death, Sexism, and Domestic abuse
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Classism, Torture, Gore, Child abuse, Ableism, Toxic friendship, Cancer, Chronic illness, Adult/minor relationship, Miscarriage, and Infidelity
Minor: Colonisation, Bullying, Animal cruelty, Religious bigotry, Racism, Murder, Acephobia/Arophobia, Drug use, Blood, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Alcoholism, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Rape, and Animal death
lindseyhall44's review
5.0
To anyone interested in the amazing lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelly, I would highly recommend!
Graphic: Death of parent, Religious bigotry, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Violence
tmickey's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Misogyny, Child death, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Death, Death of parent, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, and Grief
Moderate: Sexual content, Terminal illness, Cancer, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Alcoholism
Minor: Slavery, Murder, Sexual assault, Blood, Homophobia, Incest, and Forced institutionalization
lidia7's review
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Sexism, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Death of parent, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Infidelity, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Sexual violence
Minor: Abortion, Incest, Rape, and Cultural appropriation
talonsontypewriters's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Terminal illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Grief, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: War, Classism, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Child abuse, Abandonment, Infidelity, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Incest, Child death, Pregnancy, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Colonisation, Homophobia, Confinement, Racial slurs, Racism, Animal cruelty, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Ableism, and Sexual content
henrygravesprince's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death of parent, Misogyny, Grief, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, Child death, Death, Pregnancy, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic friendship, War, Abandonment, Child abuse, Incest, Religious bigotry, and Toxic relationship
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.laurenvoice's review against another edition
4.75
My favourite thing that both Wollstonecraft and Shelley had done throughout their life was protecting women from male violence. Something that is still so prevalent today. However, it shows they paved the way for the future to stand up against male violence. Mary Shelley may have played down and kept hidden her involvement in helping women, but it shows that she continued to use her mother's legacy in helping women. One situation that stood out was when she helped Elise when she had fallen pregnant, both Mary and Percy covered up this pregnancy so well that it became almost impossible to find any evidence of it at all. Although there is a mystery surrounding this child, the biography points towards that Elise was most likely raped - as with the name Mary Shelley had come up with using a character from Wollstonecraft's book that stood against male violence against women and girls. Shelley protected Elise from a society that would have shunned and demonised her for being an unwed mother.
The more this biography went on the more I disliked the males that played a role in Wollstonecraft's and Shelley's life. The men they encountered spoke of living a life of freedom, yet they continued to put these two amazing women in their life in shackles, making them into people they were not.
Godwin ruined Wollstonecraft's reputation after her death, refusing to acknowledge her writing and philosophy, it begins to create the question, was he scared of her intelligence? did he not agree with her stance of equality for women in society? Mary Wollstonecraft was an advocate for women's rights and education for all. She was an advocate for people to be taught nature to unlock their true imagination. Mary Wollstonecraft deserved and still deserves to be remembered as the innovative woman that she was! Godwin's treatment of his daughter and step-daughter, and then finding out his treatment of Wollstonecraft once she died, just filled me with a strong dislike for this man - his hypocrisy throughout just made him look like a fake.
Before reading, Romantic Outlaws, I had admired Percy Bysshe Shelley not only as the husband to such an incredible woman but as the writer too - his philosophy and political stance in his writing can still ring true today. However, in Romantic Outlaws, all I could see was the hurt he caused Mary Shelley. He claimed to stand the Wollstonecraft philosophy but he came across as someone that believes a man's needs is above a woman's. It was hard to see the equality in their relationship at times. It was even harder to see the compassion he had for Mary, especially, when 4 of their children died - in Romantic Outlaws it seemed that he believed that Mary had to give in to his desires. Nonetheless, I still admire Percy Bysshe Shelley to an extent but I only hope that he did truly love Mary more than this biography shows.
Don't even get me started on the rest of the names that shall not be named. Many of them wanted to harm and destroy Mary Shelley's name. However, Mary Shelley never gave up she fought and she succeeded by becoming one of the most famous writers to have ever lived. She followed her mothers legacy and became a feminist hero - pioneering the way for women in horror and sci-fi, and inspiring with her writing.
Both Wollstonecraft and Shelley stood for the equality of women, the end of male violence against women and girls. Not only this but they understood that the violence that men expressed is not only a women's issue but a men's issue too. They understood the need for violence to end to create a safer society in which people can live as equals, no matter their race, class, sexuality or gender.
Although Romantic Outlaws gave a fascinating and inspiring look into the lives and deaths of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. I did find that Gordon at times gave too long descriptions and went off on tangents in a few parts. Nonetheless, writing both Mary's lives in comparison to each other was innovative and really brought these two brilliant women back to life.
Moderate: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Violence, War, Misogyny, and Miscarriage
Minor: Rape
berodatheelf's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Suicide
rosianna's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, and Suicide