
Screengrab from The New Yorker. The illustration is by Henning Wagenbreth.
A terrific read about Mary Shelley by Jill Lepore, in which she examines Frankenstein from an American perspective. I have also been learning about this fascinating writer in Richard Holmes's Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer. In 1972, Holmes followed the path of the Shelleys through Italy. It's a brilliant account of his journey and how he grapples to understand their lives and relationships. In This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer, Holmes writes about Mary Shelley's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, with similar insight. Any book by Richard Holmes is well worth picking up, the guy's a genius and a champion of women writers.
At LiteraryLocations.com, we sell both Mary Shelley stickers and Mary Wollstonecraft stickers. We even have one MS in color and a few MWs in color. And we have both in black and white.


Illustrations for LiteraryLocations.com by Isabella Bannerman.