Young Mary Shelley: Struggling with Death while Bringing Life to Frankenstein

This is an inspirational story of a young woman who had not one day of formal education, received no support or encouragement from her parents, lived at a time repressive to women (even Jane Austen did not put her name on Sense and Sensibility or Pride and Prejudice in fear they would not be accepted or get published). Nevertheless, by age fifteen Mary has begun collecting ideas and keeping notes ...