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A in english and american literature from harvard college. Romantic outlaws, about the lives of mary wollstonecraft and mary. This groundbreaking dual biography brings to life a pioneering english feminist and the daughter she never knew. The extraordinary lives of mary wollstonecraft and mary shelley 2015 she was born in st. There is a great deal we cant know about the social experimenters who crowd charlotte gordons new tome of almost 650 pages, romantic outlaws. What did you read as research for your book that you. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. 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 woman and her novelist daughter mary shelley, author of frankenstein. Inventive, pageturning, involving biography at its best.
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