{"product_id":"mary-shelley-9781471174155","title":"Mary Shelley","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘The most dazzling biography of a female writer to have come my way for a decade…'\u003c\/b\u003e – \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘To be savoured for its vivid and sympathetic recreation of the tragic life and brilliant times of the gifted Mary Shelley’\u003c\/b\u003e – \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘\u003cb\u003eBrilliant and enthralling' \u003c\/b\u003e– \u003ci\u003eIndependent On Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Wonderfully vivid' \u003c\/b\u003e– \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe definitive and richly woven biography of Mary Shelley, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe creator of the world’s most famous outsider became one herself . . . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e There is no more dramatic scene in literary history than the stormy night by Lake Geneva when \u003cb\u003eByron\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eClaire Clairmont\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003ePolidori\u003c\/b\u003e and the \u003cb\u003eShelleys\u003c\/b\u003e met to talk of horror and the unexplained. From tha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003cb\u003eThe\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003emost dazzling biography\u003c\/b\u003e of a female writer to have come my way for a decade… Here, for the first time, Shelley steps off the page as a living, thinking, suffering woman, fraught and caught in the web of her own intelligence.’ -- Jackie Wullschlager * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003e‘To be savoured for its \u003cb\u003evivid and sympathetic recreation\u003c\/b\u003e of the tragic life and brilliant times of the gifted Mary Shelley.’ * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003cb\u003eBrilliant and enthralling\u003c\/b\u003e, this portrait illuminates Mary’s life in many unexpected ways.’ * Independent On Sunday *\u003cbr\u003e‘A \u003cb\u003ewonderfully vivid, human and learned portrait\u003c\/b\u003e of the woman who created Frankenstein, married Shelley, and, amazingly, survived.’ * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Mary Shelley\u003c\/i\u003e, Miranda Seymour’s \u003cb\u003eaffectionate and well-written biography\u003c\/b\u003e, concisely sketches the background of scientific inquiry that influenced Shelley’s early intellectual development… Seymour \u003cb\u003ekeenly brings out\u003c\/b\u003e how fraught Mary Shelley’s own life was with tragedies of childbirth and infant mortality… In 1818, the Shelleys moved to Italy…where Byron now was. They formed a tense and inbred circle, \u003cb\u003esharply evoked by Seymour\u003c\/b\u003e: the women eyeing each other jealously, each serially or simultaneously in love with Shelley or Byron or both… Miranda Seymour is a novelist as well as an experienced biographer… She has \u003cb\u003evivid narrative gifts and a perceptive understanding of the main personalities\u003c\/b\u003e.' -- New York Times Notable Books * The New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eSplendid\u003c\/b\u003e biography.' * The New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Miranda Seymour’s lucid biography\u003c\/b\u003e arrives as the general reader’s guide to Mary Shelley’s ascent to academic cult status… \u003cb\u003eSeymour is persuasive\u003c\/b\u003e.' * The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e'Gracefully sweeping through the dramatic life of the woman behind history’s most legendary monster, Miranda Seymour \u003cb\u003eunbuttons a world of brilliant literary figures\u003c\/b\u003e in \u003ci\u003eMary Shelley\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003cb\u003ere-creates the imaginative time\u003c\/b\u003e in which \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e was born… The Mary we meet here, \u003cb\u003ebrilliantly brought to life\u003c\/b\u003e by Seymour from previously unexplored sources, is flawed, brave, generous, and impetuous.' * Goodreads *\u003cbr\u003e'I envy any reader of \u003cb\u003ethis excellent biography\u003c\/b\u003e who happens not to be very familiar with the lives of Shelley and the girl who eloped with him when she was sixteen.' -- Diana Athill * The Oldie *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The most thorough account\u003c\/b\u003e of Shelley’s life…\u003cb\u003eeminently readable.'\u003c\/b\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A harrowing life, wonderfully retold\u003c\/b\u003e.' -- Washington Post Best Books of the Year * The Washington Post Book World *\u003cbr\u003e'Seymour is \u003cb\u003eadept at capturing the cultural climate and social context\u003c\/b\u003e of the early nineteenth century in the major English and Italian settings of Shelley’s life story. She has done hard and valuable work in finely combining the correspondence of the many players in this story, and reconstructing the likeliest version of events---no mean feat with a circle, such as Shelley’s, that was rife with contention, backbiting and self-promotion.' * The Baltimore Sun *\u003cbr\u003e'One of the \u003cb\u003efinest and most significant biographies\u003c\/b\u003e of recent years.' * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003e'Seymour’s book is \u003cb\u003ea timeless representation\u003c\/b\u003e of a woman who endured skewed public perceptions about herself and her loved ones.' * Commercial Appeal *\u003cbr\u003e'Mary’s tragic life story makes for \u003cb\u003ea biography as intriguing as her masterpiece\u003c\/b\u003e.' * The Oregonian *\u003cbr\u003e'Seymour’s \u003cb\u003escrupulous, almost anxiously tender portrait\u003c\/b\u003e peels away the myths like layers of tissue paper shrouding a lost relic. \u003cb\u003eThis is a fine biography\u003c\/b\u003e that gives us the dense background to Mary Shelley’s work while losing none of the\u003cb\u003e searing glamour and pain \u003c\/b\u003eof her \u003cb\u003esad, extraordinary life\u003c\/b\u003e.' * The Sunday Times *","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408691405143,"sku":"9781471174155","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781471174155.jpg?v=1730503833","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mary-shelley-9781471174155","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}