"Beyond question Shelley scholars and 19th-century specialists will value this usefully annotated and carefully produced edition; it may also be that anyone would enjoy the stories themselves... and the accompanying original engravings." -- Diane Johnson, "Washington Post."
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Few literary reputations have been so distorted by admirers and traducers as that of Mary Shelley, daughter of pioneer feminist Mary Wollstonecraft (of whom Sunstein wrote a biography) and radical philosopher William Godwin. Shelley wrote not only the first science-fiction novel, Frankenstein , but the first cosmic-calamity novel, The Last Man. In this first complete biography of her, based on exhaustive research, Sunstein puts things to rights by examining Mary Shelley's copious writings in the light of her life: her intellectually stimulating childhood; her tempestuous eight years with Shelley, as lover and then wife; and nearly three decades as author, literary personality, mother and, to a large extent, social outcast. Despite Sunstein's somewhat spikey prose, this is an absorbing study that tells us a great deal not only about the novelist but about the Shelley-Byron circle. Mary Shelley emerges a strong, talented and high-principled woman, no mere rider on her husband's coattails, but an important Romantic in her own right. Illustrations.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Promises to be the definitive biography of Mary Shelley... Sunstein is to be praised for looking anew at so misunderstood a life.
(New York Times )Beyond question Shelley scholars and 19th-century specialists will value this usefully annotated and carefully produced edition; it may also be that anyone would enjoy the stories themselves... and the accompanying original engravings.
(Diane Johnson Washington Post )
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This is a very thorough biography on Mary Shelley. I don't think, however, it is for everyone, since the language at times very academic and not for the layman. Nevertheless, Mary Shelley's turbulent,fascinating life with all her mistakes reads like fiction . Her emotional and intellectual journey to wholeness took many turns, and her genius shines clearly throughout the book.
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As someone who reads a lot of history and biographies, I find it a rare pleasure when a book is both authoritative and entertaining. I really enjoyed reading this, and found it wonderfully detailed.
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IN THE COURSE of preparing this biography, a far more complex and lengthy undertaking than I anticipated at its inception in 1975, I have consulted and corresponded with a great number of specialists and institutions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Shelley, Sir Timothy, Leigh Hunt, Maria Gisborne, Mary Godwin, Harriet Shelley, Jane Williams, Claire Clairmont, Lady Shelley, New York, Mary Wollstonecraft, The Keepsake, Marianne Hunt, Perkin Warbeck, Skinner Street, Jeff Hogg, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Godwin, Teresa Guiccioli, Don Juan, John Murray, The Revolt of Islam, Caroline Norton, Field Place, Jane Hogg New!
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IN THE COURSE of preparing this biography, a far more complex and lengthy undertaking than I anticipated at its inception in 1975, I have consulted and corresponded with a great number of specialists and institutions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Shelley, Sir Timothy, Leigh Hunt, Maria Gisborne, Mary Godwin, Harriet Shelley, Jane Williams, Claire Clairmont, Lady Shelley, New York, Mary Wollstonecraft, The Keepsake, Marianne Hunt, Perkin Warbeck, Skinner Street, Jeff Hogg, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Godwin, Teresa Guiccioli, Don Juan, John Murray, The Revolt of Islam, Caroline Norton, Field Place, Jane Hogg New!
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- The Last Man (Oxford World's Classics) by Mary Shelley on 32 pages
- Mary Shelley: Collected Tales and Stories with original engravings by Charles E. Robinson on 28 pages
- Don Juan (The English poets) by Lord George Gordon Byron on 12 pages
- Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley on 8 pages
- The Rights of Woman (Phoenix Sixties) by Mary Wollstonecraft on 6 pages
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- The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Esther Schor on 6 pages
- Mary Shelley in Her Times by Betty T. Bennett on 5 pages
- Mary Shelley in Her Times by Betty T. Bennett on 5 pages
- The Other Empire: British Romantic Writings about the Ottoman Empire (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Filiz Turhan in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- A Broken Heart Still Beats: After Your Child Dies by Anne McCracken on page 126, and Back Matter
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