A review by hecman111
In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein by Fiona Sampson

3.0

Finally finished two months later! Definitely don’t mean this as an insult, but I used this one to help me fall asleep every night. It’s a bit dense, but a good read for any fan of Shelley. This book has lots of excerpts from Shelley’s journals/letters as well as those around her. Most fascinating for me, however, were the first chapters on Shelley’s parents, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. Nonetheless, Shelley’s story is complicated and full of tragedy (strangely, a common theme in books I tend to like), but I appreciated getting a glimpse into the relationships and experiences that shaped her and impacted her writing and legacy.