In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein

by Fiona Sampson

Book Overview

We know the facts of Mary Shelley's life in some detail--the death of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, within days of her birth; the upbringing in the house of her father, William Godwin, in a house full of radical thinkers, poets, philosophers, and writers; her elopement, at the age of seventeen, with Percy Shelley; the years of peripatetic travel across Europe that followed. But there has been no literary biography written this century, and previous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681777525
• ISBN13: 9781681777528
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"