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(The) Enigma of Room 622
Agatha Christie
(The) Sting of Justice
These Fevered Days
Etta Lemon
Romantic outlaws

I love when one books ticks off so many reading challenges!
This book was highly detailed, well written and the alternate chapters between mother and daughter really sets the pace to see the similarities between both women even when they didn't have each other at their sides.
Kudos to Gordon for writing a fantastic memoir to both women, highlighting their lives and work and how we almost lost them to history.

@Clwojick #pantone2023 #23in2023

I'm completely distracted and obsessed with this book. May just be the best biography I've ever read. I admired Mary Wollstonecraft before, I'm obsessed with her now. What an incredible woman.
Defo a good fit for #pemberlittens and #shesaid

@Riveted_Reader_Melissa @sprainedbrain

A #Romantic from my tbr.

#ItHadToBeYou
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

3.5⭐
This is probably better than my rating but about half through I got bored, and switched to the audio. I think it is me on the verge of a book slump, because honestly I have no criticism of the book. It is interesting, fast paced and the writing is well done. My only complaint is it was hard at time to keep all of the Mary's straight.

One of the best nonfictions I've read in a long time. Parallel biographies of mother and feminist trailblazer Mary Wollstonecraft & her daughter, the writer Mary Shelley. Told in alternating chapters following their lives from beginning to end. Not only does the book address events, but it also examines relationships and, most importantly, analyzes the women's feminism & political philosophies through extensive discussion of their works.

#JamminJune #pinkandbluecovers

I've read several biographies about Mary Shelley, but this one feels the most complete. I had a hard time putting it down.

“Both mother and daughter attempted to free themselves from the stranglehold of polite #society, and both struggled to balance their need for love and companionship with their need for independence. They braved the criticism of their peers to write works that took on the most volatile issues of the day. . . . Both fought against the injustices women faced and both wrote books that revolutionized history.” #QuotsyMar20

So is Hozier like Shelley, or Shelley like Hozier?

The more I learn about Percy Shelley, the more I can't stand him

Apparently in Regency England, animals had more rights than women 😡

I‘m a bit torn over the Mary Shelley biography I‘ve been reading, In Search of Mary Shelley. There seems to be a bit of supposition to the point of overreaching to form a connection in how Mary viewed herself in the world. Also, I can tell the author despises Percy Shelley. I do like a lot of the other info, but my husband surprised me with this biography which includes Mary Wollstonecraft as well. Now I‘ll compare. Cake was a Mother‘s Day treat!

Thank you for this most delightful Christmas package, @erzascarletbookgasm ! 😘 I love how it was wrapped; it's so cute with the mini candy canes 😍 Thank you so much, J! Have a lovely holiday with your family ❤️❤️

Some day, I hope to #FeedMyFrankenstein by reading this book about Shelley and her mother. There are also a ton of new books out there about Shelley and Frankenstein, so everyone can feed their monsters! #OctoberXFiles

I‘m on a Mary Shelley fascination at the moment. I can‘t learn enough about her. Which authors are you fascinated by, want to learn everything about? Me? Jane Austen of course, I‘ve been a Janeite for over 15 years. Through the years I‘ve had to learn all about Elizabeth Gaskell, Leo Tolstoy, Edgar Alan Poe, John Keats (even though I‘m not a poetry fan- the movie Bright Star is to blame), Thomas Hardy.

Day 4 #outlaws #coolbooks

Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, mother and daughter (though Wollstonecraft died soon after giving birth to Mary 😔) lived through incredibly complex and complicated kinship and #family arrangements. How challenging it was to be a daughter, sister, wife, mother, lover, thinker, and artist; and the extreme toll it took on the body without reproductive autonomy and advanced medicine. #maylovesclassics #litsyclassics @Sarah83 @Bambolina_81

The #MountTBRChallenge scales on. Here is the link to my gr review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1844675427

I am so behind on my reading. But then again the books I have been reading have been averaging between 400 and 500 pages.

It is a MISERABLE Marathon Monday here in Boston. Instead of cheering for ridiculous humans voluntarily running 26.6 miles, I am staying warm and dry in my own home. No. Regrets.

This is an excellent book! It‘s a good look at Wollstonecraft and Shelley. The chapters are set up so that every other chapter is about one Mary then the other. It‘s an interesting setup, which I liked but some might find confusing. Still worth it!

"Maybe Godwin [...] could teach her the rules of syntax -- an unlikely foundation for romance, perhaps, but for Mary, there could be few more intimate exchanges. She wrote to reveal herself to the world; commas, sentences, and paragraphs were the only tools she had. Years earlier she had begun her passionate friendships with both Fanny Blood and Jane Arden by asking them to correct her grammar."

Mary Wollstonecraft = my fave nerd ???

Once upon a time,
Romantic outlaws:
A tyranny of petticoats
Glamour in glass
The One.

#spinepoetry #riotgrams

I always read several books at a time but I'm spending my morning tea with an alternating Mary. I just left Mary Wollstonecraft in revolutionary Paris being stalked by her future lover and tomorrow I get to rescue Mary Godwin (later Shelley) from off-season Bath where she's working on Frankenstein. #riotgrams #currentread @bookriot

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all the feels. reading how the issues of feminism are the same as we have today and how ~230 years ago Mary Wollstonecraft declared women's rights and the opposition still uses the same arguments today and... I just... can't. it's hard to read when it all goes blurry... and I know this, actively, but it's just so powerful to read about it...

On one of their visits, they scratched their initials into a windowpane with a diamond ring, never dreaming that one day Mary would have fans who would travel thousands of miles to see her wobbly MWG; the cottage became a pilgrimage site until the window was stolen from the house in the 1970s.

#romanticoutlaws

🎀 Ebook deal of the day 🎀 because we are all obsessed with the mother-daughter duo that are Mary's Wollstonecraft and Shelley. We luv them.

It‘s on sale as an ebook so I thought, why not?!

You could pair this dual biography of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley with one of their famous works. #bookpairings

#fallintobooks @RealLifeReading

Such a gripping read! #marywollstonecraft

Cannot wait to read this.

Mary Wollstonecraft died days after giving birth to her daughter so sadly mother and daughter never knew each other. Inspired by her mother's writing, Mary Shelley lived the bold and vibrant life, unhindered by convention, that her mother would have wanted for her anyway. These ladies are the best kind of #renegades. #lyricalapril

Very good. Detail was superb found out things I didn't know and has made me want to found out more. The only issue I found with it is that the chapters alternate between the two (which is a nice break from traditional biographies) which meant that is was sometimes hard to keep up with which Mary it was!

The first-ever dual biography of both Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley. The chapters switch between the women--one chapter on Wollstonecraft's childhood, another on Shelley's, etc.--in order to show the influence Wollstonecraft had on her daughter, despite her death a few days after Shelley's birth. I'm enjoying it and would recommend it if you like nonfiction about strong women!

One of my Christmas books. It looks so much right up my alley. Anybody read it?

Each chapter shifts between mother and daughter running their lives in parallel to show how similar they really were. I thought this was fascinating and a bit terrifying how both women were almost lost to history after their deaths because of well meaning relatives telling their stories! Great read if your interested in literary history or history of feminism ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Cold gloomy day = hot chocolate + kindle + warm blanket 👍

Read this shit. This shit's good.

Hey @Litsy Please add an item to the wishlist of improvements for this app. It would be fantastic if you could run an algorithm to weed out duplicate titles in your database. I imagine the days are shorter than the to-do lists. Thanks for brining this app into the world. Keep up the great work.

Apparently I agree with 39 other highlighters! I think I may need to read Vindication of the Rights of Women in the Serial app soon...

I find my kindle time estimates just lead to me reading one more chapter.... it's only 14 minutes? 😉

Yet another reason I'm really glad to be living in this century and not earlier! And I'm really loving this combined biography of mother-daughter Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley 💗 Recommend for any of our literary nerds out there 🤓

This one took awhile to read. I will admit that I knew very little about the lives of either Mary so I learned a lot. However I found the alternating chapters jarring, making me jump from reading about Shelley to Wollstonecraft and back again without transition.

#FunFridayPhoto I have been dying to read this dual biography of early feminist writer Mary Wollstencraft and the daughter she never got to know Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. I'm very intrigued by women who shirk the expectations of their time. @Liberty

Here is my #NovemberTBR. Not shown are the audiobooks of Dark Matter and The Ocean At The End Of The Lane, which are in my car. And for the record, I am going to try really, really hard this month to stick with the photo challenge for more than a few days. 😳#photoadaynov16 @RealLifeReading

You'll want to be best friends with both Marys by the end of the book. I would sooooo watch a biopic of either of these badass ladies.

For academics or readers passionate about Romanticism, this would be a fascinating book. Despite being neither, I learned a lot about the period and subject. And yet, it provided me with a level of detail I found excessive to draw the author's point: Mary Shelley was heavily influenced by her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, both her published work and the life she led. Feminist radical she was, no doubt. My education is more complete for this book.