英国作家生平丛书：玛丽？雪莱

“英国作家生平丛书”由外教社从英国大英图书馆出版社引进出版。丛书以图文并茂的形式讲述莎士比亚等14位英国著名作家的生平故事，同时穿插介绍他们的作品，有助于充实读者对英国文学的认识。丛书的作者均为专业领域里有着较深造诣的学者，对史料的掌握系统全面，他们用生动的语言娓娓讲述作家生平事迹，点评具体文学作品，书末还附有供读者进一步阅读的书单，推荐了有代表性的文献，对英语专业学生撰写课程论文或毕业论文很有帮助。丛书内容风趣，插图精美，文字简洁，兼顾普及性和专业性，是学习和了解英国文学的良师益友。
本书全面、系统地介绍了玛丽·雪莱富于传奇色彩的人生经历。脉络清晰、视野广阔、趣味盎然，内容丰富、资料翔实、图文并茂、语言流畅、通俗易懂，是一部优秀的人物传记作品，高校英语专业本科生、研究生以及文学爱好者都能从中获得启迪和教益。 

Mary Shelley’s authorship of the novel Frankenstein guaranteed her wide-spread renown, but her turbulent life and other literary works are equallyfascinating. Born in 1797 to the writers Mary Wollstonecraft and WilliamGodwin. she inherited her parents’ passion for literature, social justice, andwomen’s rights. At the age of just sixteen she ran away with Romantic poetPercy Bysshe Shelle）, and was widowed by twenty-four. During their eightyears together （living mainly in Italy）, she was estranged from her family andsometimes from her husband, suffered periods of depression, and saw threeof their four children die in infancy. Despite her troubles, Mary Shelley main-tained a busy social life, including a complicated friendship with the poetI,ord Byron. She also wrote journals, short stories, mythical dramas, andseveral novels, including Frankenstein. After her husband’s death in 1822 shereturned to England with her surviving son. She continued to write, both inorder to earn a living and to satisfy her literary ambitions. She also producedmajor editions of” her husband’s poetry and prose.Martin Garrett’s engaging biography – extensively illustrated with originalletters and manu*s – captures the extraordinary life of Mary Shelley andthe social circle in which she moved. Theauthor also discusses some of MaryShelley’slesser-known writings, longneglected but now the subject of continuing critical attention.
作者简介：
Martin Garrett has written extensively onboth nineteenth-century and Renais-sance literature. His recent booksinclude two titles in The British LibraryWriters’ Lives series – George Gordon. LordByron （2000） and Elizabeth Barrett Brown-ing and Robert Browning （2001） – andVenic: A Cultural and Literary Companion（Signal Books, 2001）. He is also theauthor of A MaryShelley. Chronology,（Palgrave Macmillan. 2001）.

Mary Godwin: ‘bold, somewhat imperious, and active of mind’
‘The irresistible wildness and sublimity of her feelings’, 1814
London and ‘enshadowing thickets’, 1814–1816
Switzerland and ‘the component parts of a creature’, 1816
Bath, Marlow and London, 1816-1818
‘Sorrow’s most obscure abode’:Italy, 1818-1819
Pisa, San Terenzo and Genoa, 1820-1823
Presumption and The Last Man,1823-1826
‘The genuine affections of the heart’, 1826-1840
Rambles and ‘Unreserved directness’, 1840-1851
Chronology
Further Reading
Index