Title: Mary Shelley
Description: "On the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, comes a riveting biography of its author, Mary Shelley, whose life reads like a dark gothic novel, filled with scandal, death, drama, and one of the strangest love stories in literary history"--

A biography of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, reads like a dark gothic novel, filled with scandal, death, drama, and one of the strangest love stories in literary history. Reef discusses the creation of Shelley's story about a mad scientist who brought a corpse back to life, detailing her life both before and after the publication of this iconic masterpiece. -- adapted from amazon.com
Subjects: English Authors, History and criticism, Juvenile literature, Biography, English Horror tales, Authors, english, Authors, juvenile literature
People: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)
Time periods: 19th century