An innovative, beautifully written analysis of Mary Shelley's life and works which draws on unpublished archival material as well as Frankenstein and examines her relationship with her husband and other key personalities.

Anne K. Mellor

Chapter One: In Search of a Family; Chapter Two: Making a Minster; Chapter Three: My Hideous Progeny; Chapter Four: Promethean Politics; Chapter Five: A Feminist Critique of Science; Chapter Six: Usurping the Female; Chapter Seven: Problem of Perception; Chapter Eight: Love, Guilt and Reparetion; Chapter Nine: Revising Frankenstein; Chapter Ten: Fathers and Daughters, or "A Sexual Education"; Chapter Eleven: Idealizing the Bourgeois Family: Final Reflections