In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein

Name: In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
Brand: Profile Books Ltd
SKU: 9781781255292-G
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By Fiona Sampson

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2018 'Daringly swift and enjoyably irreverent' Observer 'As crisply rendered as Frankenstein's own plane of Arctic ice' Guardian Mary Shelley was brought up by her father in a house filled with radical thinkers, poets, philosophers and writers of the day. Aged sixteen, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, embarking on a relationship that was lived on the move across Britain and Europe, as she coped with debt, infidelity and the deaths of three children, before early widowhood changed her life forever. Most astonishingly, it was while she was still a teenager that Mary composed her canonical novel Frankenstein, creating two of our most enduring archetypes today. The life story is well-known. But who was the woman who lived it? She's left plenty of evidence, and in this fascinating dialogue with the past, Fiona Sampson sifts through letters, diaries and records to find the real woman behind the story. She uncovers a complex, generous character - friend, intellectual, lover and mother - trying to fulfil her own passionate commitment to writing at a time when to be a woman writer was an extraordinary and costly anomaly. Published for the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, this is a major new work of biography by a prize-winning writer and poet.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 336
Release Date:: 2018-09-27
Publication Date:: 2018-09-27
Publisher:: Profile Books Ltd
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1781255296
ISBN13:: 9781781255292
Weight:: 288 g
Height:: 13.1 cm
Width:: 20 cm
Thickness:: 2.4 cm

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