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cariola119, August 29, 2006

Without a doubt, the best book I read all summer--I've been recommending it to everyone. Despite the subtitle, Morgan's novel focuses not so much on the Romantic poets as on the women in the their lives: Mary Shelley (Frankenstein author and wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley); Lady Caroline Lamb (Byron's one-time lover and mad stalker); Augusta Leigh (Byron's half-sister and lover); and Fanny Brawne (Keats's fiancee). The novel moves smoothly from one woman's point of view to another's, with several intriguing intersections. Featured in secondary roles are Mary Wollstonecraft (Mary Shelley's mother) and Claire Clairemont, who was Mary Shelley's stepsister, Byron's lover and the mother of his child, and, Morgan hints, possibly Percy Shelley's lover as well. Unlike many novels set amongst the Romantics, this one avoids the gothic and the overly dramatic. Morgan creates realistic, intelligent women, and his style is graceful and comepelling. A fascinating read!

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