Bibliograph

In search of Mary Shelley, the girl who wrote Frankenstein, Fiona Sampson

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Label

In search of Mary Shelley, the girl who wrote Frankenstein, Fiona Sampson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

In search of Mary Shelley

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Fiona Sampson

Sub title

the girl who wrote Frankenstein

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

Creator