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Jane Norman, March 11, 2008

Whether you are a fan of Shelley's poetry or not you will enjoy this entertaining biography of the young romantic poet's elopement with Mary Shelley and the subsequent suicides of his first wife Harriett and Mary's half sister Fanny. (Harriet's suicide was blamed on Shelley's abandonment of her; Fanny's on her unrequited love for Shelley). Along the way you will read about the famous rendez-vous with Lord Byron which resulted in Mary Shelley's masterpiece "Frankenstein" being written. You will read about Shelley's circle of friends, enemies, lovers (platonic), and adventures. And you will learn about Fanny, the illegitimate daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, the famous author of The Vindication of Women's Rights, who has until now taken a distant second place in literary history to her mother and half sister. I highly recommend this fun and entertaining book.

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