by Charlotte Gordon
This is such a fantastic biography that I suspect it will become my gold standard. It’s a dual biography of two well-known female intellectuals (who were also mother and daughter), Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. All I knew of either woman before reading this was her most famous book, but as i...
bookshelves: summer-2015, published-2015, radio-4, women, nonfiction, biography, books-about-books-and-book-shops, lit-crit Recommended to Bettie☯ by: Laura Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from August 09 to 15, 2015 BOTWhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b064xjn1Description: Juliet Aub...
This dual biography of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley utterly enthralled me. Both were talented, groundbreaking, independent thinking women, they each had drama and difficulties in their lives worthy of a Brontë novel, and between them they knew intimately some of the most interes...
This biography is to Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley what [b:The Brontës|763144|The Brontës|Juliet Barker|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1223636088s/763144.jpg|3360804] is to Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë. Meaning: if there is one book you want to read on the two Marys, this is ...