Antoinette May
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May’s book covers Shelley’s life from childhood through her death, with the primary focus on her years her years living with Bysshe. Their lifestyle would set tongues wagging and raise eyebrows even by today’s looser mores. They were Scandalous (with a capital “S”!) during their own lives (we did not cover this during high school English class!) and were often the outcasts. In part due to their lifestyle, and in part due to circumstance and living in a time before the advent of modern medicine, Mary’s life was marked by sadness, tragedy, and loneliness. In fact, despite the genesis of “Frankenstein” in response to a challenge for a “ghost story”, Mary would always maintain that the book was really about loneliness and rejection.
May does a good job making these complex personalities come alive for the reader. My criticism is that she includes entirely too much detail. The book was too long, and my interest started to wane as the book went on. A shorter, tighter, book would have made for a better read.
3 stars.
Thank to you NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for a galley of this book in exchange for an honest review.… (meer)