Monster: The Story of a Young Mary Shelley

A fictionalized autobiography of the woman who wrote Frankenstein.

Two centuries ago, a twenty-year-old woman invented science fiction.

Her father gave her a better education than any woman of the age could hope for—and made her the victim of ongoing incest. At fifteen, she became involved with one of the greatest poets in England and made love to him on her mother’s grave. When she was sixteen, she escaped from home by running away for a six-week walking tour of Europe, and shared Percy ...