Mary Shelley - Softcover

Garrett.M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 7544611396 ISBN 13: 9787544611398

Publisher: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2009

Synopsis

·:Mary Shelley's authorship of the novel Frankenstein guaranteed her wide-spread renown, but her turbulent life and other literary works are equally fascinating. Born in 1797 to the writers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. she inherited her parents' passion for literature, social justice, and women's rights. At the age of just sixteen she ran away with Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelle), and was widowed by twenty-four. During their eightyears together (living mainly in Italy), she was estranged from her family and sometimes from her husband, suffered periods of depression, and saw three of their four children die in infancy. Despite her troubles, Mary Shelley main-tained a busy social life, including a complicated friendship with the poetI,ord Byron. She also wrote journals, short stories, mythical dramas, and several novels, including Frankenstein. After her husband's death in 1822 shere turned to England with her surviving son. She continued to write, both inorder to earn a living and to satisfy her literary ambitions. She also produced major editions of"""" her husband's poetry and prose. Martin Garrett's engaging biography - extensively illustrated with original letters and manuscripts - captures the extraordinary life of Mary Shelley and the social circle in which she moved. The author also discusses some of Mary Shelley's lesser-known writings, long neglected but now the subject of continuing critical attention.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 7544611396
• ISBN 13: 9787544611398
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 122