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The real monsters in Mary Shelley's life
From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20001106
Author:CLAIRE HARMAN
MARY SHELLEY by Miranda Seymour (John Murray, 25)
WHEN Percy Bysshe Shelley abandoned his pregnant wife and ran off to the Continent with Mary Godwin in 1814, he had in his luggage two of her parents' books; William Godwin's novel Fleetwood and Mary Wollstonecraft's memoir A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Shelley idolised both writers and it is hard not to agree with Miranda Seymour that he seems to have valued their 16-year-old daughter Mary even more as a trophy than a lover - a sort of literary talisman. But though Mary Godwin had the genetic credentials to be Shelley's ...
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