Goodreads asked Charlotte Gordon:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Charlotte Gordon I was fascinated to discover that Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley were mother and daughter. Somehow, despite my many degrees in English literature, I had not fully realized this. When I began to read about both women, I became more and more engrossed. I looked for a biography of mother and daughter, and when I found there wasn't one, I realized I would have to write it myself.

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