Not only did Wollstonecraft declare the rights of women, her work ignited Romanticism. Wollstonecraft proclaimed that women’s liberty should matter to everyone. Shelley eloped in a fishing boat with a married man. Wollstonecraft sailed to Paris to witness the Revolution. And both women broke almost every rigid convention there was to break: Wollstonecraft chased pirates in Scandinavia. Nevertheless their lives were so closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies so eerily similar, it seems impossible to consider one without the other.īoth women became famous writers fell in love with brilliant but impossible men and were single mothers who had children out of wedlock both lived in exile fought for their position in society and thought deeply about how we should live. Romantic Outlaws is the first book to tell the story of the passionate and pioneering lives of Mary Wollstonecraft – English feminist and author of the landmark book, The Vindication of the Rights of Women – and her novelist daughter Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.Īlthough mother and daughter, these two brilliant women never knew one another – Wollstonecraft died of an infection in 1797 at the age of thirty-eight, a week after giving birth.
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