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Hot and Bothered

Live from Pemberley: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (with Charlotte Gordon)

Hot and Bothered

Not Sorry Productions

Books, Feminism, Intersectionality, Arts, Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

We're taking a quick pause in reading Pride and Prejudice to deep dive into the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft. We've been bringing up Wollstonecraft a lot throughout this series, wondering how Pride and Prejudice reflects (or rejects) the feminist ideas of the era. This week, Lauren talks to Dr. Charlotte Gordon, author of Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley. Lauren and Dr. Gordon discuss Wollstonecraft's life and radicalization, her influence on Austen, and why Wollstonecraft didn't become an enduring celebrity like Austen.


In two weeks, we return to Pride and Prejudice with Chapter 43, when Elizabeth's arrival to Pemberley.



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0:00.0

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0:44.2

Happy New Year everyone, Vanessa is on a writing retreat this week, so we are bringing you

0:49.6

a special episode of Live from Pemberley.

0:54.1

And the name you've heard me say many times before, Mary Wollstonecraft.

0:58.8

So as you know, we've been thinking a lot about Austin's politics and feminism over the

1:03.2

course of this series and we keep bringing up Mary Wollstonecraft as a conversation partner

1:09.2

and sometimes even as a counter example of a certain type of feminist writing from around

1:14.2

that era.

1:15.2

You know, we've been so interested in how Wollstonecraft has informed Austin and how

1:19.8

Austin has really sort of fought against her.

1:22.8

But we wanted to just take some time to fully delve in, to learn a little bit more about

1:28.4

Wollstonecraft and about her major feminist ideas.

1:32.1

So we wanted to reach out to Professor Charlotte Gordon, who is a distinguished professor of

1:36.9

the humanities at Endocott College.

1:39.6

And the reason we wanted to talk to Charlotte in addition to her being a brilliant historian

1:45.8

and thinker about literature is that she wrote this fantastic book called Romantic Outlaws,

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