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092    BIO|bSHELLEY 
100 1  Sampson, Fiona,|eauthor. 
245 10 In search of Mary Shelley /|cFiona Sampson. 
250    First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York :|bPegasus Books,|c2018. 
300    xii, 304 pages :|billustrations (some color) ;|c24 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-294) and 
       index. 
520    We know the facts of Mary Shelley’s life in some 
       detail—the death of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, 
       within days of her birth; the upbringing in the house of 
       her father, William Godwin, in a house full of radical 
       thinkers, poets, philosophers, and writers; her elopement,
       at the age of seventeen, with Percy Shelley; the years of 
       peripatetic travel across Europe that followed. But there 
       has been no literary biography written this century, and 
       previous books have ignored the real person—what she 
       actually thought and felt and why she did what she 
       did—despite the fact that Mary and her group of second-
       generation Romantics were extremely interested in the 
       psychological aspect of life.   In this probing narrative,
       Fiona Sampson pursues Mary Shelley through her turbulent 
       life, much as Victor Frankenstein tracked his monster 
       across the arctic wastes. Sampson has written a book that 
       finally answers the question of how it was that a nineteen
       -year-old came to write a novel so dark, mysterious, 
       anguished, and psychologically astute that it continues to
       resonate two centuries later. No previous biographer has 
       ever truly considered this question, let alone answered 
       it. 
600 10 Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,|d1797-1851. 
650  0 Authors, English|y19th century|vBiography.