Mary Shelley

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Mary Shelley

Miranda Seymour

John Murray, 2000

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [615]-618) and index

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Description

Mary Shelley's own life was as passionate and dramatic as her fiction. Drawing on unexplored sources, this biography presents a picture of a woman misunderstood, intense, loyal, generous; a woman possessed of a dark and brilliant imagination which gave the public a myth for her time and for today.

Table of Contents

  • Childhood
  • freedom
  • Italy
  • a woman of ill repute
  • the head of the family
  • lost illusions. Appendices: the burial of Shelley's heart
  • unpublished letter from Mary Shelley
  • the two newly discovered portraits.

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