Charlotte Gordon

Charlotte Gordon is an American biographer and professor whose book Mary Shelley is a dual biography that examines the lives of Mary Shelley and her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, two of the most remarkable women in literary history. Gordon tells their stories in alternating chapters, revealing the extraordinary parallels and connections between the pioneering feminist philosopher who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the daughter who created Frankenstein, one of the most enduring works of fiction in the English language. The book won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and has been praised for its meticulous research, elegant prose and innovative structure. Gordon is a professor of humanities at Endicott College and brings scholarly depth to her accessible, engaging narrative. Her approach reveals how both women challenged the conventions of their time through their writing, their intellectual ambitions and their personal choices. The audiobook edition brings this compelling portrait of literary mother and daughter to listeners interested in literary biography, women's history and the creative lives behind two of the most important works of feminist literature.