Mary Shelley: The Strange True Tale of Frankenstein’s Creator
Catherine Reef
This biography traces Mary Shelley’s life before and after she wrote Frankenstein at nineteen. It examines the influence of her feminist-writer mother, teacher-and-publisher father, and relationship with the poet Percy Shelley. Mary and Percy moved often, faced debt and rumors of infidelity, and lost three of their four children before Percy drowned at twenty-nine. Despite Frankenstein’s success, Mary struggled to support herself and her son through later writing and editorial work.
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