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These 100 sonnets tell the story of an extraordinary young woman who had an immeasurable impact on literature and other media worldwide. The collection focuses on the period from her birth, as Mary Godwin (daughter of literary firebrands William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft), to her twenty-fourth year, when she returned to London after five years abroad: a widow and a mother to a young son, but with a scandalous reputation and no clear means of support. However, she was "The Author of 'Frankenstein'." The nom de plume carried the weight of a novel that had already become famous (indeed, infamous), and she understood that it may make it possible for her to support herself and her son via her pen. The sonnets also chronicle Mary Shelley's interactions with some of the most influential writers and thinkers of her day: her husband Percy Shelley, of course, as well as Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Matthew "Monk" Lewis, John Polidori, Leigh Hunt, and others. And no biography of Mary Shelley would be complete without an accounting of the famous ghost story writing contest among the "Diodati Circle" in the year with no summer. Several of the sonnets appeared in journals previously, including Feminist Spaces, The Poetry Lighthouse, The Soliloquist, and The Brussels Review.



About the Author :
Ted Morrissey has been called "the modern-day Hawthorne" (Reader Views), and he's been the recipient of several literary awards, including the American Fiction Award, the International Book Award, and the Manhattan Book Award; he's also been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, the Kirkus Prize, and the Best American Mystery and Suspense anthology. His novels include Mrs Saville, a sequel to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; and An Untimely Frost, also inspired by the life and times of Mary Shelley. Retired from full-time teaching, he continues to teach online for Lindenwood University and Southern New Hampshire University. He co-hosts (with Brady Harrison and Grant Tracey) the monthly podcast A Lesson before Writing. In 2024-25, he had the honor of delivering by invitation a series of lectures remotely to colleagues and students in Hue, Vietnam; Islamabad, Pakistan; Kabul, Afghanistan; and Tehran, Iran. The topics included the evolution of the English language, a history of popular fiction, psychoanalytic criticism, and literary trauma theory. Like the poet Carl Sandburg, Ted was born and raised in Galesburg, Illinois.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798993321509
  • Publisher: Twelve Winters Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Twelve Winters Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 120
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 326 gr
  • ISBN-10: 8993321507
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2026
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 140 mm


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