A review by leannep
In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein by Fiona Sampson

informative reflective relaxing slow-paced

4.5

Watched a movie on SBS about Mary and Percy Bessie Shelley   then saw this book in the op shop. Good book. I learnt so much. Who knew her mum was Mary Wollstonecraft feminist, who died soon after she was born.  And her dad a revolutionary philosopher and publisher.  What feisty teenager Mary Shelley was,  and what an entitled, selfish chauvinist was Percy, even though Mary tried to 'massage ' his legacy in publishing his work after he died young. I liked the analysis of Frankenstein too.