Muriel spark mary shelley biography book
Mary shelley biography book!
Mary Shelley
Muriel spark mary shelley biography book
Well, I was left stunned at his, shall we say, extreme behaviour, especially towards the women unlucky enough to be his partners in life… About Mary, I only knew superficially the story of how she wrote Frankenstein - now I became really interested to know more of her life and choices that kept a smart and enlightened woman within her times, with this… insufferable person.
Enter Muriel Sparks whose “Memento mori” I loved, and whose works include Mary’s biography (yay!)
From Muriel’s unpublished 1950. preface:
“Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, had been an ardent feminist who, although she was at pains to set forth her theories on the rights of women, was herself temperamentally unsuited to the application of her doctrines.
It was her daughter, Mary Shelley, who realised these ideals b