The Woman Who Created Frankenstein (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Janet Harris
- First Published: 1979
- Time of Work: 1759–1851
- Setting: England, Scotland, Switzerland, and Italy
- Principal Characters: Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane (Claire) Clairmont, Fanny Imlay, Sir Timothy Shelley, Percy Florence Shelley
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Parents and children, Traveling or travelers, Philosophy or philosophers, Authors or writers, Social issues, Marriage, Poetry or poets, Writing, Novelists, England or English people, Women’s issues, Sisters, Accidents, Death or dying, Women’s rights, Biography, Horror
- Locales: England, Italy, Scotland, Switzerland
Form and Content
In The Woman Who Created Frankenstein: A Portrait of Mary Shelley, Janet Harris focuses on the development of the myth of Frankenstein to emphasize the importance of Shelley’s accomplishment and to provide an intriguing introduction to this writer’s life. The biography opens with Mary Shelley’s account of the ghost story contest among Lord Byron, his physician John Polidori, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and herself that led to the composition of Frankenstein (1818). It ends with a chapter that discusses various literary and cinematic versions of...
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