Mary Shelley

by Martin Garrett

Book Overview

Mary Shelley traces the unusual life of the author of one of the most famous and terrifying novels of all time, Frankenstein . Martin Garrett looks at Mary Shelley's unconventional early life as the daughter of the free-thinking feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who died soon after Shelley's birth, and the radical philosopher William Godwin, her elopement with Percy Bysshe Shelley and his encouragement of her writing, and her life after Percy's death...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195217896
• ISBN13: 9780195217896
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.9" x 9.9"