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Sampson, Fiona (author.).

Summary: We know the facts of Mary Shelley's life in some detail--the death of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, within days of her birth; the upbringing in the house of her father, William Godwin, in a house full of radical thinkers, poets, philosophers, and writers; her elopement, at the age of seventeen, with Percy Shelley; the years of peripatetic travel across Europe that followed. But there has been no literary biography written this century, and previous books have ignored the real person--what she actually thought and felt and why she did what she did--despite the fact that Mary and her group of second-generation Romantics were extremely interested in the psychological aspect of life. In this probing narrative, Fiona Sampson pursues Mary Shelley through her turbulent life, much as Victor Frankenstein tracked his monster across the arctic wastes. 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. No previous biographer has ever truly considered this question, let alone answered it.

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  • ISBN: 9781681777528
  • ISBN: 1681777525
  • Physical Description: print
    xii, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (mostly color) ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Pegasus Books, 2018.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-294) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Part One: The Instruments of Life -- The Instruments of Life -- Learning to Look --Through a Door Partly Opened --Elopement -- Becoming a Couple --At Villa Diodati -- A Young writer -- Emigrants --Part Two: Borne Away by the Waves -- Le rêve est fini --The Mona Lisa Smile -- Coda.

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Subject: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft 1797-1851
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft 1797-1851 Criticism and interpretation
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Authors, English 19th century Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures
LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors
Genre: Biographies.

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  • 24 of 24 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Greenwood Public Library. (Show)

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  • 0 current holds with 24 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Greenwood PL - Greenwood NONFICTION BIOGRAPHY Shelley (Text) 36626103968673 2nd Floor Adult Nonfiction Available -
Batesville Mem. PL - Batesville 920 SHELLEY MARY (Text) 34706001607763 Non-Fiction 900-999 Available -
Coatesville-Clay Twp PL - Coatesville B SHELLEY (Text) 78321000027689 Adult Biography Available -
Danville-Center Twp PL - Danville B She (Text) 32604000205233 AD Biography Available -
Eckhart PL - Main 823.7 SAM (Text) 840191002126510 Adult Nonfiction - Upper Level Available -
Fulton Co PL - Rochester Main Library 921 SHE (Text) 33187004384240 Nonfiction Available -
Garrett PL - Garrett 823.7 SAM (Text) 30010170850591 Nonfiction Available -
Greensburg-Decatur Co PL - Greensburg BIO SHELLEY (Text) 32826014148613 Adult Biography Available -
Hussey-Mayfield Mem. PL - Zionsville B SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONE SAMPSON (Text) 33946003364572 Adult Biographies Available -
Jay Co PL - Portland B S545 (Text) 76383000462797 Adult Biographies Available -
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