Vindicated

A Novel of Mary Shelley

By: Kathleen Williams Renk

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Paperback | 10 November 2020

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Mary Godwin is a teenager with a formidable pedigree. Both of her parents are philosophers but it is Mary Wollstonecraft, the mother she never met, who haunts her waking and dreaming worlds. Reading about her mother's unconventional life and death inspires Mary to keep a journal. Just as the tumult of her parents' relationship comes alive in her imagination, she meets emerging poet Percy Shelley. Even though he is married and his wife is pregnant, Shelley threatens to kill himself if Mary will not elope with him. It's possible that Shelley is mad, but their intellectual and creative affinities convince her that she is his Child of Light and inspires her to throw caution to the wind. Passionate and intellectual, Mary struggles with the demands of her volatile husband, and their circle of friends, including her stepsister Claire and their friend George Gordon, Lord Byron. But as she writes Frankenstein, she also muses about her encounters with her creature and the philosophical questions of life, death, and creation that undergird her novel. Justifying their unconventional life and enduring personal tragedies, Mary follows in her mother's footsteps, as she contemplates a woman's place in literature and the world.

Industry Reviews

"Vindicated is an admiring and graceful tribute to Mary Shelley, who was challenged to bridge her writing with the tasks of motherhood." -Karen Rigby, Foreword Reviews

ï»"... a captivating fictionalized history of the 'Mother' of Science Fiction ... well-crafted ... keeps readers from page to page" - Chautauqua Prize Committee

"Shelley's waking and dreaming worlds conspire to create the most famously human "monster" in literature. You'll read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with new eyes after you have devoured this book." -Mary Helen Stefaniak, award-winning author of The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia and The Turk and My Mother

"The language [...] dances between poetic, philosophical, and occasionally frightening. [...] a beautifully written, engaging novel that will stay with the reader for a long time." -Janice Derr, Historical Novel Review

"... crisp, utterly compelling prose brings to life a woman whose creation, as in the novel Frankenstein itself, has taken on a life of its own, eclipsing its creator." - C. P. Lesley, New Books Network

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Vindicated

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