商品簡介
"Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) and her daughter Mary Shelley (1797-1851) have each been the subject of numerous biographies by top tier writers, yet no author has ever examined their lives in tandem. Perhaps this is because these two amazing women never knew each other--Wollstonecraft died of infection at the age of 38, a week after giving birth to her daughter. Nevertheless their lives were closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies so eerily similar, it seems impossible to consider one without the other: both became famous writers; both fell in love with brilliant but impossible authors; both were single mothers and had children out of wedlock (a shocking and self-destructive act in their day); both broke out of the rigid conventions oftheir era and lived in exile; and both played important roles in the Romantic era during which they lived. The lives of both Marys were nothing less than extraordinary, providing fabulous material for Charlotte Gordon, a gifted story teller. She seamlessly weaves their lives together in back and forth narratives, taking readers on a vivid journey across Revolutionary France and Victorian England, from the Italian seaports to the highlands of Scotland, in a book that reads like a richly textured historical novel"--
作者簡介
Charlotte Gordon is the author of The Woman Who Named God: Abraham’s Dilemma and the Birth of Three Faiths andMistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America’s First Poet, as well as two books of poetry,When the Grateful Dead Came to St. Louisand Two Girls on a Raft. She received her undergraduate degree in English and American literature from Harvard University and her PhD from Boston University. Gordon is an associate professor of English at Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts.
