Mary's Monster
Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein
Roaring Brook Press · Print & ebook · January 30, 2018
“Both timely and terrifying.” —Gregory Macguire, New York Times–bestselling author of Wicked Pairing free verse with over three hundred pages of black-and-white watercolor illustrations, Mary’s Monster is a unique and stunning biography of Mary Shelley, the pregnant teenage runaway who became one of the greatest authors of all time.
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- Who it’s for
- Mary Shelley’s biography pairs free verse with hundreds of black-and-white watercolor illustrations.
- Themes
- Mary Shelley’s life, The creation of Frankenstein, Grief and loss
- Genres
- Writers' Lives, Women's Lives, Lives in History
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“Both timely and terrifying.” —Gregory Macguire, New York Times–bestselling author of Wicked Pairing free verse with over three hundred pages of black-and-white watercolor illustrations, Mary’s Monster is a unique and stunning biography of Mary Shelley, the pregnant teenage runaway who became one of the greatest authors of all time. Legend is correct that Mary Shelley began penning Frankenstein in answer to a dare to write a ghost story.
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What most people don't know, however, is that the seeds of her novel had been planted long before that night. By age nineteen, she had been disowned by her family, was living in scandal with a married man, and had lost her baby daughter just days after her birth. Mary poured her grief, pain, and passion into the powerful book still revered two hundred years later, and in Mary's Monster, author/illustrator Lita Judge has poured her own passion into a gorgeous book that pays tribute to the life of this incredible author. A 2019 NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book A 2019 Amelia Bloomer Project Book This title has Common Core connections.
A Life in Verse
Mary Shelley’s biography pairs free verse with hundreds of black-and-white watercolor illustrations.
Come here for
- A writer’s life shaped by grief, passion, and literary imagination
- A vivid meeting of words and hand-painted images
Expect
- A biography told in free verse
- More than three hundred pages of black-and-white watercolor illustrations
Where it sits
| Writers' Lives | 78% |
|---|---|
| Lives in History | 67% |
| Women's Lives | 59% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Writers' Lives
- Women's Lives
- Authors
- Lita Judge
- Publisher
- Roaring Brook Press
- Published
- January 30, 2018
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Mary Shelley’s life · The creation of Frankenstein · Grief and loss
- Reading lane
- Writers' Lives