Mary's Monster: love, madness, and how Mary Shelley created Frankenstein

Legend is correct that Mary Shelley began penning Frankenstein in answer to a dare to write a ghost story. What most people don’t know, however, is that the seeds of her novel had been planted long before that night. By age nineteen, she had been disowned by her family, was living in scandal with a married man, and had lost her baby daughter just days after her birth. Mary poured her grief, pain, and passion into the powerful book still revered two hundred years later, and in Mary’s Monster, author/illustrator Lita Judge has poured her own passion into a gorgeous book that pays tribute to the life of this incredible author.

Subjects
Biography, Novel-in-Verse
Author:
Lita Judge
Illustrator:
Lita Judge
Publisher:
Roaring Brook Press
Copyright:
2018
ISBN:
9781626725003
Author Website:
https://www.litajudge.net/
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