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