Participant Info
- First Name
- Charlotte
- Last Name
- Gordon
- Country
- United States
- State
- MA Massachusetts
- cgordon@endicott.edu
- Affiliation
- Endicott college
- Website URL
- https://www.charlottegordonbooks.com/
- Keywords
- Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Anne Bradstreet, early American women’s literature history, 18th and 19th century British women’s literature and history, women’s fiction, a vindication of the rights of woman, Frankenstein, women and religion, the Bible and women
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
Charlotte Gordon’s most recent book, Romantic Outlaws: The Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, won the National Book Critic’s Award in Biography. She has also published Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Story of America’s First Poet and The Woman Who Named God: Abraham’s Dilemma and the Birth Of Three Faiths. She writes frequent reviews for The Washington Post and other publications. Most recently, she published the introduction to Penguin’s re-issue of the 1818 edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Currently, she is the distinguished professor of the humanities at Endicott College.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- British Isles
- Expertise by Chronology
- 17th century, 18th century, 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Founding Era, Book History, Family, Literary History, Local & Regional, Religion, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Women
