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In Search of Mary Shelley
  • ISBN: 9781781255292
  • Pages: 320
  • Publisher: Profile
  • Binding: Paperback

In Search of Mary Shelley

The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein

Fiona Sampson
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Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2018

Fiona Sampson sifts through letters, diaries and records to find the real woman behind the well-known life story of Mary Shelley.

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.

Fiona Sampson 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.

 

‘Sampson is as adept as Frankenstein himself, giving life to a figure who convincingly aches and bleeds’ Guardian



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