In Mary Shelley, Catherine Reef brings this passionate woman, brilliant writer, and forgotten feminist into crisp focus, detailing a life that was remarkable both before and after the publication of her immortal masterpiece. Success soon followed for Mary, but also great tragedy and misfortune. It was there, during a cold and wet summer, that she first imagined her story about a mad scientist who brought a corpse back to life. Raised by her father, the political philosopher William Godwin, Shelley ran away to Lake Geneva with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley when she was only sixteen years old. This "fascinating, scandal-rich" biography recounts a story full of drama, death, and one of the strangest romances in literary history ( Booklist). Most famous for her iconic tale of gothic horror, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley led a life that could itself have been a gothic novel. A better view of Mary Shelley is Lita Judge’s Mary’s Monster.This YA biography offers "a thorough, sensitive portrayal of one of literature ' s most remarkable authors, illustrated with period portraits and engravings " ( Kirkus). Verdict: By omitting the stressful relationship between Mary and her stepmother and attributing childhood issues to her father, Reef has restructured the biographical information and left out part of the impetus for Mary running away. Small black and white vintage illustrations have been added to the text. Catherine Reef - Mary Shelley: The Strange True Tale of Frankensteins Creator, Hardcover - On the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein. Catherine Reef brings this passionate woman, brilliant writer, and forgotten feminist into crisp focus, detailing a life that was remarkable both before and after the publication of her iconic masterpiece. Well educated, Shelley suffered terrible losses but managed to write seven novels. In between, she ran away from home at 16 with the charismatic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, lost all except one of four children at early ages, and traveled throughout Europe until she returned to England after her husband’s drowning when she was 24. The daughter of feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft led an unorthodox life from the time of her widowed father’s remarriage when she was four years old to her death at the age of 53 and her son’s discovery that she had kept what was assumed to be her husband’s heart after his cremation.
Mary Shelley: The Strange True Tale of Frankenstein’s Creator.
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