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In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein

Engelsk Paperback

In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein

Engelsk Paperback

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2018''If we get another literary biography in 2018 as astute and feelingful as this one, we shall be lucky.'' - John Carey, Sunday TimesMary 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. She uncovers a complex, generous character - friend, intellectual, lover and mother - trying to fulfil her own passionate commitment to writing at a time when to be a woman writer was an extraordinary and costly anomaly.Published for the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, this is a major new work of biography by a prize-winning writer and poet.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9781781255292
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1781255296
Udg. Dato:
27 sep 2018
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
127mm
Højde:
195mm
Forlag:
Profile Books Ltd
Oplagsdato:
27 sep 2018
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