Charlotte Gordon is an American writer, distinguished professor of humanities at Endicott College, and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction for her book Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley (2015).
Awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she is the director of The Tadler Center at Endicott College.
[4] Examining them as stories, and drawing on the Bible both as a source of literature and religion, she notes that "some of the most crucial western ideas about freedom come from Hagar".
[5] Gordon was the 2012 Rose Thering Fellow from the Lubar Institute for her work exploring interfaith issues.
The first Mary died giving birth to the second in 1797, and, according to The Independent, "Gordon sheds new light on these visionary women who believed in making their own rules."