Mary Shelley

By: Miranda Seymour

Write A Review

Paperback | 22 February 2018

At a Glance

Paperback
672 Pages

Dimensions(cm)
13.1 x 19.7 x 4.4

Paperback

$33.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $8.44 with

or

Ships in 10 to 15 business days

The definitive and richly woven biography of Mary Shelley, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein

The creator of the world’s most famous outsider became one herself . . .

There is no more dramatic scene in literary history than the stormy night by Lake Geneva when Byron, Claire Clairmont, Polidori and the Shelleys met to talk of horror and the unexplained. From that emerged Frankenstein, a monster who has haunted imaginations for two hundred years.

Miranda Seymour illustrates the rich and unexplored life of Mary Shelley. Everything from her childhood to her tempestuous relationship with Percy Shelley; Seymour brings to life the brilliant mind that created Frankenstein through unexplored and intriguing sources.

The Mary Shelley we meet here is a woman we can engage with and understand. Her world, so rich in its settings and its cast of characters, seems drawn from a novel. She, at its centre, is flawed, brave, generous, and impetuous, a woman whose dark and brilliant imagination gave us a myth which seems ever more potent in our own era.

Industry Reviews

‘The most dazzling biography of a female writer to have come my way for a decade… Here, for the first time, Shelley steps off the page as a living, thinking, suffering woman, fraught and caught in the web of her own intelligence.’

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.

Defective items

If there is a problem with any of the items received for your order then the Booktopia Customer Care team is ready to assist you.

For more info please visit our Help Centre.

More in Literary Biographies

Fires Which Burned Brightly

A Life in Progress

Paperback

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF

RRP $32.99

$26.99

18%
OFF

A Fraction Of The Whole

Hardcover

$35.00

$12.75

25%
OFF

Nine Grudges

The Spiteful Origins of the Happiest Dyke on Earth

Hardcover

$64.99

Mary Shelley

At a Glance

Paperback

Industry Reviews

Shipping

How to return your order

Defective items

You Can Find This Book In

More in Literary Biographies

Fires Which Burned Brightly

A Life in Progress

Always Home, Always Homesick

Wifedom

Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life

How to End a Story

Collected Diaries 1978-1998

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death

The Sunday Times No. 1 Bestseller

On Writing

A Memoir of the Craft

Memorial Days

ABIA 2026 BIOGRAPHY BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER and SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 STELLA PRIZE

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

The internationally bestselling classic

Mother Mary Comes to Me

Longlisted for the 2026 Womens Prize for Non-Fiction

Somewhere Here the Future's Hid

The extraordinary life of Lesbia Harford

En Route

A Journey Round France in the Company of Great Writers

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Last Night I Dreamt

A Personal History of the du Mauriers - An intimate, revelatory family biography of the iconic writer Daphne du Maurier and her famous ancestors, by her eldest grandson

Free

Coming of Age at the End of History

Shakespeare's Strong Women

The wit, wisdom and wickedness of his fiercest female characters

A Fraction Of The Whole

Unleashed

On Writing

A Memoir of the Craft

The Year of Magical Thinking

Collins Modern Classics

Auden

Alan Garner and the work of time

Twenty-First Century Perspectives

For the Dead Remember

The Life of M. R. James

Down and Out in Paris and London & The Road to Wigan Pier

Wordsworth Classics

Nine Grudges

The Spiteful Origins of the Happiest Dyke on Earth

This product is categorised by

Longlisted for the 2026 Womens Prize for Non-Fiction