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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
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emotional
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
It took me a really long time to finish this book (apparently 9 months, wow!). I started out with the idea of reading a little bit every month, but then I kept getting distracted by other books and lost momentum. I think that this erratic reading pattern might have affected my overall enjoyment negatively; it really started to feel like an impossible and never-ending task to get through this.
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).
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).
Content Warnings
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
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