The definitive & richly woven biography of Mary Shelley, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein The creator of the world`s most famous outsider became one herself... There is no more dramatic scene in literary history than the stormy night by Lake Geneva when Byron, Claire Clairmont, Polidori & the Shelleys met to talk of horror & the unexplained. From that emerged Frankenstein, a monster who has haunted imaginations for two hundred years. Miranda Seymour illustrates the rich & unexplored life of Mary Shelley. Everything from her childhood to her tempestuous relationship with Percy Shelley; Seymour brings to life the brilliant mind that created Frankenstein through unexplored & intriguing sources. The Mary Shelley we meet here is a woman we can engage with & underst&. Her world, so rich in its settings & its cast of characters, seems drawn from a novel. She, at its centre, is flawed, brave, generous, & impetuous, a woman whose dark & brilliant imagination gave us a myth which seems ever more potent in our own era.