The Last Woman Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
Famous from her birth-- the complications of which killed her mother, the beautiful and talented prototypical feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, leaving the 'child of divine light' upon the hands of her father, the seminal radical philosopher and early anarchist, William Godwin--she earned both infamy and fame of her own at the astonishing age of 19 for her eerie novel Frankenstein.
Attractive because of her parentage and own prettiness, she spent her youth in a series of a mad adulterous affair with Percy Shelley and flirtations with Lord Byron, Edward Trelawny and other men, though her sympathies and possibly her desires always lay with her own sex.
In an extremely unorthodox, even revolutionary manner that adhered to her illustrious parent's famous new system of education (no formal schooling at all until she was 13) she was taught by listening to the most extraordinary lights of literature, politics and art in London.
Attractive because of her parentage and own prettiness, she was seduced at 16 by the irresponsible young poet and outspoken atheist Percy Bysshe Shelley and ran away with him (and her stepsister, Claire) to Europe, where she conceived her first child, who was born prematurely and shortly died. Her father refused to speak to her for two years.
Spending the 'year without a summer' of 1816 with Lord Byron (himself in self-imposed exile due to multiple scandals) she wrote 'Frankenstein', her only success.
Her life was dogged by the death of those nearest and dearest, as if Fate pursued her. Her half-sister committed suicide and her lover's wife did the same. First Shelley, then Lord Byron are killed, leaving Mary to carry on. Plagued until her untimely death in middle age by a mysterious malady originating in her early adolescence--variously resembling the progress of syphilis or an organic brain tumor--she lived on after the grand loves and follies of her youth had guttered out like a candle at dawn. She worked for most of the remainder of her truncated life turning out potboilers to support her sole remaining child (the future Sir Percy Florence Shelley) and her bankrupt father and detested stepmother. From scandalizing the public (and being ostracized as a result) she lived on in genteel want until her son succeeded and became Lord Shelley.
Set against the backdrop of Regency England and post-Bonaparte Europe--from noisome, smoky London to the serenity of Geneva to the cosmopolitan cities of Tuscany to the windswept isolation of the Gulf of Spezia-- this novel presents the themes of Mary Shelley's works--'Frankenstein', 'The Last Man', the still shocking confessional 'Mathilda' and 'Lodore'-- counterpointed with the events in her life to examine the relationship between her biography and her literary output. The glitterati of the era--Coleridge, Byron, Hazlitt, the Lambs, Robert Southey, etc.-- make their entrances and exits, in the end leaving Mary on her own and alone, save for the expressionist portraits in her fiction of those she loved, those she hated and those she lost.
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Attractive because of her parentage and own prettiness, she spent her youth in a series of a mad adulterous affair with Percy Shelley and flirtations with Lord Byron, Edward Trelawny and other men, though her sympathies and possibly her desires always lay with her own sex.
In an extremely unorthodox, even revolutionary manner that adhered to her illustrious parent's famous new system of education (no formal schooling at all until she was 13) she was taught by listening to the most extraordinary lights of literature, politics and art in London.
Attractive because of her parentage and own prettiness, she was seduced at 16 by the irresponsible young poet and outspoken atheist Percy Bysshe Shelley and ran away with him (and her stepsister, Claire) to Europe, where she conceived her first child, who was born prematurely and shortly died. Her father refused to speak to her for two years.
Spending the 'year without a summer' of 1816 with Lord Byron (himself in self-imposed exile due to multiple scandals) she wrote 'Frankenstein', her only success.
Her life was dogged by the death of those nearest and dearest, as if Fate pursued her. Her half-sister committed suicide and her lover's wife did the same. First Shelley, then Lord Byron are killed, leaving Mary to carry on. Plagued until her untimely death in middle age by a mysterious malady originating in her early adolescence--variously resembling the progress of syphilis or an organic brain tumor--she lived on after the grand loves and follies of her youth had guttered out like a candle at dawn. She worked for most of the remainder of her truncated life turning out potboilers to support her sole remaining child (the future Sir Percy Florence Shelley) and her bankrupt father and detested stepmother. From scandalizing the public (and being ostracized as a result) she lived on in genteel want until her son succeeded and became Lord Shelley.
Set against the backdrop of Regency England and post-Bonaparte Europe--from noisome, smoky London to the serenity of Geneva to the cosmopolitan cities of Tuscany to the windswept isolation of the Gulf of Spezia-- this novel presents the themes of Mary Shelley's works--'Frankenstein', 'The Last Man', the still shocking confessional 'Mathilda' and 'Lodore'-- counterpointed with the events in her life to examine the relationship between her biography and her literary output. The glitterati of the era--Coleridge, Byron, Hazlitt, the Lambs, Robert Southey, etc.-- make their entrances and exits, in the end leaving Mary on her own and alone, save for the expressionist portraits in her fiction of those she loved, those she hated and those she lost.
By the author of 'Fair Wind For Vinland'
The Last Woman Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
Famous from her birth-- the complications of which killed her mother, the beautiful and talented prototypical feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, leaving the 'child of divine light' upon the hands of her father, the seminal radical philosopher and early anarchist, William Godwin--she earned both infamy and fame of her own at the astonishing age of 19 for her eerie novel Frankenstein.
Attractive because of her parentage and own prettiness, she spent her youth in a series of a mad adulterous affair with Percy Shelley and flirtations with Lord Byron, Edward Trelawny and other men, though her sympathies and possibly her desires always lay with her own sex.
In an extremely unorthodox, even revolutionary manner that adhered to her illustrious parent's famous new system of education (no formal schooling at all until she was 13) she was taught by listening to the most extraordinary lights of literature, politics and art in London.
Attractive because of her parentage and own prettiness, she was seduced at 16 by the irresponsible young poet and outspoken atheist Percy Bysshe Shelley and ran away with him (and her stepsister, Claire) to Europe, where she conceived her first child, who was born prematurely and shortly died. Her father refused to speak to her for two years.
Spending the 'year without a summer' of 1816 with Lord Byron (himself in self-imposed exile due to multiple scandals) she wrote 'Frankenstein', her only success.
Her life was dogged by the death of those nearest and dearest, as if Fate pursued her. Her half-sister committed suicide and her lover's wife did the same. First Shelley, then Lord Byron are killed, leaving Mary to carry on. Plagued until her untimely death in middle age by a mysterious malady originating in her early adolescence--variously resembling the progress of syphilis or an organic brain tumor--she lived on after the grand loves and follies of her youth had guttered out like a candle at dawn. She worked for most of the remainder of her truncated life turning out potboilers to support her sole remaining child (the future Sir Percy Florence Shelley) and her bankrupt father and detested stepmother. From scandalizing the public (and being ostracized as a result) she lived on in genteel want until her son succeeded and became Lord Shelley.
Set against the backdrop of Regency England and post-Bonaparte Europe--from noisome, smoky London to the serenity of Geneva to the cosmopolitan cities of Tuscany to the windswept isolation of the Gulf of Spezia-- this novel presents the themes of Mary Shelley's works--'Frankenstein', 'The Last Man', the still shocking confessional 'Mathilda' and 'Lodore'-- counterpointed with the events in her life to examine the relationship between her biography and her literary output. The glitterati of the era--Coleridge, Byron, Hazlitt, the Lambs, Robert Southey, etc.-- make their entrances and exits, in the end leaving Mary on her own and alone, save for the expressionist portraits in her fiction of those she loved, those she hated and those she lost.
By the author of 'Fair Wind For Vinland'
Attractive because of her parentage and own prettiness, she spent her youth in a series of a mad adulterous affair with Percy Shelley and flirtations with Lord Byron, Edward Trelawny and other men, though her sympathies and possibly her desires always lay with her own sex.
In an extremely unorthodox, even revolutionary manner that adhered to her illustrious parent's famous new system of education (no formal schooling at all until she was 13) she was taught by listening to the most extraordinary lights of literature, politics and art in London.
Attractive because of her parentage and own prettiness, she was seduced at 16 by the irresponsible young poet and outspoken atheist Percy Bysshe Shelley and ran away with him (and her stepsister, Claire) to Europe, where she conceived her first child, who was born prematurely and shortly died. Her father refused to speak to her for two years.
Spending the 'year without a summer' of 1816 with Lord Byron (himself in self-imposed exile due to multiple scandals) she wrote 'Frankenstein', her only success.
Her life was dogged by the death of those nearest and dearest, as if Fate pursued her. Her half-sister committed suicide and her lover's wife did the same. First Shelley, then Lord Byron are killed, leaving Mary to carry on. Plagued until her untimely death in middle age by a mysterious malady originating in her early adolescence--variously resembling the progress of syphilis or an organic brain tumor--she lived on after the grand loves and follies of her youth had guttered out like a candle at dawn. She worked for most of the remainder of her truncated life turning out potboilers to support her sole remaining child (the future Sir Percy Florence Shelley) and her bankrupt father and detested stepmother. From scandalizing the public (and being ostracized as a result) she lived on in genteel want until her son succeeded and became Lord Shelley.
Set against the backdrop of Regency England and post-Bonaparte Europe--from noisome, smoky London to the serenity of Geneva to the cosmopolitan cities of Tuscany to the windswept isolation of the Gulf of Spezia-- this novel presents the themes of Mary Shelley's works--'Frankenstein', 'The Last Man', the still shocking confessional 'Mathilda' and 'Lodore'-- counterpointed with the events in her life to examine the relationship between her biography and her literary output. The glitterati of the era--Coleridge, Byron, Hazlitt, the Lambs, Robert Southey, etc.-- make their entrances and exits, in the end leaving Mary on her own and alone, save for the expressionist portraits in her fiction of those she loved, those she hated and those she lost.
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| BN ID: | 2940158390753 |
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| Publisher: | Carl Sanders |
| Publication date: | 05/14/2016 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 258 KB |
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