Moon in eclipse: A life of Mary Shelley

by Jane Dunn

Genres: Biography

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1978

About the author

Jane Dunn is a leading biographer, the author of Moon in Eclipse: A Life of Mary Shelley, A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Wolf, and Antonia White: A Life. Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens was published in the spring of 2003 and spent seven weeks in the top ten of the Sunday Times bestseller list. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Dunn lives near Bath with her husband, the linguist and writer Nicholas Ostler. Her most recent book is Read My Heart.

Reviews

[Audrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting biography of the sad and often chaotic life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley the author of Frankenstein and lover then life of the poet Shelley. She was a very talented writer, who has seemed overshadowed in history by the works of Shelley. By the time she was 24 she had lost to death three children and her husband Shelley. She spent the rest of her life trying to give her surviving son a secure home and deal with the aftermath of the tragedy that seemed to
plague her life. A well written and plotted biography.