# Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley

Award-winning author Charlotte Gordon discussed her biography of Mary Shelley and her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, entitled "Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley." She then has a conversation with Washington Post columnist Michael Dirda. Gordon recently authored the introduction to the anniversary re-issue of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein." This event was made possible through the support of the John Y. Cole and Nancy E. Gwinn Trust Fund.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2018
- By: Library Of Congress. Center For The Book
- Genres: Romance
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021692478/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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