In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein - Fiona Sampson

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2018'Daringly swift and enjoyably irreverent' Observer'As crisply rendered as Frankenstein's own plane of Arctic ice' GuardianMary 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... Zobrazit více