She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein

FROM SARAH:

The fact that Mary Shelley was 18 years old when she wrote Frankenstein never ceases to amaze me! Is it the zany illustrations or the slightly-spooky color palette that makes this biography un-put-downable?

FROM THE PUBLISHER:

On a stormy night two hundred years ago, a young woman sat in a dark house and dreamed of her life as a writer. She longed to follow the path her own mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, had started down, but young Mary Shelley had yet to be inspired.

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