![]() ![]() ![]() "Reef does an excellent job of putting Mary Shelley’s life and work in context. ![]() Success soon followed for Mary, but also great tragedy and misfortune.Ĭatherine 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. 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. Mary ran away to Lake Geneva with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley when she was just sixteen. The story of Frankenstein’s creator is a strange, romantic, and tragic one, as deeply compelling as the novel itself. On the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, comes a riveting biography of its author, Mary Shelley, whose life reads like a dark gothic novel, filled with scandal, death, drama, and one of the strangest love stories in literary history. ![]()
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