![]() ![]() 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. 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. 2018 by Fiona Sampson (Author) 84 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition £4.27 Read with Our Free App Audiobook £0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover £16.99 16 Used from £1.45 4 New from £13. 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. Fiona Sampson In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein Hardcover 4 Jan. 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. 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. ![]() ![]() Mary Shelley was brought up by her father in a house filled with radical thinkers, poets, philosophers and writers of the day. ![]()
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