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082	0	0	_a92 SHE
100	1		_aSeymour, Miranda
245	1	0	_aMary Shelley _c/ Miranda Seymour
260			_aNew York _b: Grove Press _c, 2000.
300			_axvi, 655 p., [32] p. of plates _b: ill. _c; 24 cm.
500			_aOriginally published: London : John Murray, 2000.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [571]-620) and index.
520			_a"Mary Shelley is the definitive account of the gifted and tragic author whose escape to France at seventeen with the married poet Percy Bysshe Shelley caused great scandal in London and permanently scarred her reputation. The couple traveled, with Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont in tow, from France to Italy and Switzerland. In the summer of 1816 they rented a villa near Lord Byron's on Lake Geneva where, on a famous night of eerie thunderstorms, they told ghost stories and tales of horror. From that night emerged the idea of Frankenstein, a monster who has become an archetype of societal rejection and has haunted imaginations for nearly two hundred years. His creator was an eighteen-year-old girl." "Tragedy shadowed Mary; she came to lose three of her four children in infancy, and when she was twenty-four, Shelley drowned off the coast of Italy. After his death she moved back to a bleak and impoverished England with her only remaining child and was reduced to hack writing to make ends meet."--BOOK JACKET.
600	1	0	_aShelley, Mary Wollstonecraft _d(1797?-1851)
650			_aWomen and literature _z-England _x-History _y-19th century
650		0	_aAuthors, English _x--19th century -- Biography
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