Mary Shelley
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Grove Press, 2000.
ISBN
0802117023, 9780802117021, 0802139485, 9780802139481
Physical Desc
xvi, 655 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Status
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Bedford - Adult | BIO Shelley, Mary | On Shelf |
Belmont Beech St. - Adult | 823.7 SHELLEY,M.W./SEY | Storage |
Cambridge - Adult | 828 Shelley | On Shelf |
Concord - Adult | [BIOG] Shelley, M./Seymour | On Shelf |
Framingham State - Main | PR 5398 .S47 2000 | On Shelf |
More Details
Published
New York : Grove Press, 2000.
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
0802117023, 9780802117021, 0802139485, 9780802139481
Notes
General Note
Originally published: London : John Murray, 2000.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 571-620) and index.
Description
"Mary Shelley is the definitive account of the gifted and tragic author whose escape to France at seventeen with the married poet Percy Bysshe Shelley caused great scandal in London and permanently scarred her reputation. The couple traveled, with Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont in tow, from France to Italy and Switzerland. In the summer of 1816 they rented a villa near Lord Byron's on Lake Geneva where, on a famous night of eerie thunderstorms, they told ghost stories and tales of horror. From that night emerged the idea of Frankenstein, a monster who has become an archetype of societal rejection and has haunted imaginations for nearly two hundred years. His creator was an eighteen-year-old girl." "Tragedy shadowed Mary; she came to lose three of her four children in infancy, and when she was twenty-four, Shelley drowned off the coast of Italy. After his death she moved back to a bleak and impoverished England with her only remaining child and was reduced to hack writing to make ends meet."--Jacket.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Seymour, M. (2000). Mary Shelley . Grove Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Seymour, Miranda. 2000. Mary Shelley. Grove Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Seymour, Miranda. Mary Shelley Grove Press, 2000.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Seymour, Miranda. Mary Shelley Grove Press, 2000.
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