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| Muriel Spark's biography of Mary Shelley is available in paperback now from the Carcanet website. Get 20% off when you use the code IWDB at the checkout. The ebook will be available on 22 March and you can pre-order now. |
Carcanet wishes you a happy International Women's Day!
For more than forty years, Carcanet has published some of the best contemporary and classic writing by women.
This month, we publish Muriel Spark's acclaimed biography of Mary Shelley. In it, the great twentieth century novelist (author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) paints the portrait of a gothic icon. First published in 1951, this remarkable biography - reissued here with previously unpublished material - recounts Mary Shelley's dramatic life, from her youth and turbulent marriage to her career as a writer and editor.
At the age of twenty, Mary Shelley secured her place in history by writing Frankenstein (1818), now acknowledged as one of the great literary classics. The daughter of radical philosopher William Godwin and pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley lived an unconventional life dogged by tragedy.
At sixteen she scandalised England by eloping with her married lover, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, but was widowed after only a few years of marriage. She went on to survive her husband by nearly thirty years and to support herself and her son as a writer.
To get 20% off your copy of this exciting look into the life of one of England's most important female writers - and 20% off a range of other books by women - click here and use the code IWDB at the checkout. This offer ends at midnight on Sunday.
At sixteen she scandalised England by eloping with her married lover, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, but was widowed after only a few years of marriage. She went on to survive her husband by nearly thirty years and to support herself and her son as a writer.
