Mary's Monster: Love, Madness and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein by Lita Judge

Mary's Monster: Love, Madness and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein

Lita Judge

nonfiction biography literary young adult dark emotional informative medium-paced

320 pages | first published 2018

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Frankenstein, and his monster, have loomed large in the public imagination since their creation in 1816. But did you know that their author was a pregnant teenage runaway, rejected by her family and cast out by society when she wrote her novel? Or...
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