MaryShelley'sauthorshipofthenovelFrankensteinguaranteedherwide-spreadrenown,butherturbulentlifeandotherliteraryworksareequallyfascinating.Bornin1797tothewritersMaryWollstonecraftandWilliamGodwin.sheinheritedherparents'passionforliterature,sojustice,andwomen'srights.AttheageofjustsixteensheranawaywithRomanticpoetPercyByssheShelle）,andwaswidowedbytwenty-four.Duringtheireightyearstogether（livingmainlyinItaly）,shewasestrangedfromherfamilyandsometimesfromherhusband,sufferedperiodsofdepression,andsawthreeoftheirfourchildrendieininfancy.Despitehertroubles,MaryShelleymain-tainedabusysolife,includingacomplicatedfriendshipwiththepoetI,ordByron.Shealsowrotejournals,shortstories,mythicaldramas,andseveralnovels,includingFrankenstein.Afterherhusband'sdeathin1822shereturnedtoEnglandwithhersurvivingson.Shecontinuedtowrite,bothinordertoearnalivingandtosatisfyherliteraryambitions.Shealsoproducedmajoreditionsof"herhusband'spoetryandprose.MartinGarrett'sengagingbiography-extensivelyillustratedwithoriginallettersandmanuscripts-capturestheextraordinarylifeofMaryShelleyandthesocircleinwhichshemoved.TheauthoralsodiscussessomeofMaryShelley'slesser-knownwritings,longneglectedbutnowthesubjectofcontinuingcriticalattention.
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MartinGarretthaswrittenextensivelyonbothnineteenth-centuryandRenais-sanceliterature.HisrecentbooksincludetwotitlesinTheBritishLibraryWriters'Livesseries-GeorgeGordon.LordByron（2000）andElizabethBarrettBrown-ingandRobertBrowning（2001）-andVenic:ACulturalandLiteraryCompanion（SignalBooks,2001）.HeisalsotheauthorofAMaryShelley.Chronology,（PalgraveMacmillan.2001）.
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