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Miranda Seymour

Mary Shelley

2000

This biography examines the life of Mary Shelley, the English author best known for writing Frankenstein, exploring her literary career and personal experiences as a woman writer in the early 19th century. Seymour traces Shelley's development from the daughter of feminist Mary Wollstonecraft through her relationships with Percy Bysshe Shelley and other Romantic figures to her later years as a widow and established author.

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