5/24/2023 0 Comments Mary Shelley by Catherine ReefThis book explores the science behind Shelley’s book. Making the monster: the science behind Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by Kathryn Harkup Sampson has written a book that finally answers the question of how it was that a nineteen-year-old came to write a novel so dark, mysterious, anguished, and psychologically astute that it continues to resonate two centuries later. In this probing narrative, Fiona Sampson pursues Mary Shelley through her turbulent life, much as Victor Frankenstein tracked his monster across the arctic wastes. In search of Mary Shelley : the girl who wrote Frankenstein by Fiona Sampson The author herself was just 19 when she wrote Frankenstein, making her story perhaps particularly of interest to young women and girls just as her iconoclastic lifestyle and feminist beliefs make her story all too relevant for adult readers today. In fact, all of these books have been published since our previous list of books about Shelley. This milestone anniversary has brought renewed interest in the woman herself, including the beautiful film Mary Shelleyby Haifaa Al Mansour, as well five new biographies (and one related work!). The year 2018 marks 200 years from the initial publication of Mary Shelley’s debut work, Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus.
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