Child of Light: Mary Shelley
10 best books like Child of Light: Mary Shelley (Muriel Spark): Women Travelers: A Century of Trailblazing Adventures, 1850-1950, George Eliot, A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne Jones, Agnes Poynter, and Louisa Baldwin, Journals and Letters, Byron: Life and Legend, Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous, Nikolai Gogol, The Late Lord Byron (Neversink), Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834, Desperate Romantics: The Private Lives Of The Pre Raphaelites
| Author | Alexandra Lapierre |
| ISBN | 2080300180 |
An award-winning novelist brings to life the stories of the greatest women adventurers in history. From deserts and jungles to mountains and icebergs, they faced unimaginable dangers as they crossed all five continents, often armed with little more than a corset and an umbrella. Spanning a decade,...
| Author | Jenny Uglow |
| ISBN | 1844084981 |
Best known for her masterpieces Middlemarch and Silas Marner, George Eliot (1819–1880) was both one of the most brilliant writers of her day, and one of the most talked about. Intellectual and independent, she had the strength to defy polite society with her highly unorthodox private life which...
| Author | Judith Flanders |
| ISBN | 0393052109 |
THE MACDONALD SISTERS--Alice, Georgiana, Agnes, and Louisa--started life in the teeming ranks of the lower-middle classes, denied the advantages of education and the expectation of social advancement. Yet as wives and mothers they would connect a famous painter, a president of the Royal Academy,...
| Author | Fanny Burney |
| ISBN | 0140436243 |
Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1752-1840, was also a prolific writer of journals and letters, beginning with the diary she started at fifteen and continuing until the end of her eventful life. From her youth in London high society to a period in the court of Queen Charlotte and her years...
| Author | Fiona MacCarthy |
| ISBN | 0571179975 |
An excellent biography of Byron - and I've read a few by now. To be honest, during Byron's early years I was feeling as if I'd read it all (or most of it) before. But during the later years, especially once he reaches Venice, the book really came into its own. I felt there was more depth, detail and interest...
| Author | Catherine M. Andronik |
| ISBN | 0805077839 |
Meet the rebellious young poets who brought about a literary revolution
Rock stars may think they invented sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but the Romantic poets truly created the mold.
In the early 1800s, poetry could land a person in jail. Those who tried to change the world through...
| Author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| ISBN | 0811201201 |
The work of Gogol—one of the very greatest of Russia's literary geniuses—has become fairly well known in America but has seldom been properly understood. There have been many bad, but a few good, translations of his work available in English, and critics have often tended to put labels on him, to...
| Author | Doris Langley Moore |
| ISBN | 1935554484 |
“The best biography of Lord Byron ever written,” according to Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin, is now back in print after decades.
Of the hundreds of books on Byron and his work, not one has been devoted to the immediate aftermath of his life; and yet it is these first twenty posthumous years that...
| Author | Richard Holmes |
| ISBN | 0375708383 |
Richard Holmes's Coleridge: Early Visions won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Prize. Coleridge: Darker Reflections, the long-awaited second volume, chronicles the last thirty years of his career (1804-1834), a period of domestic and professional turmoil. His marriage foundered, his opium...
| Author | Franny Moyle |
| ISBN | 0719521904 |
Desperate Romantics, a tie-in with a new BBC series, focuses on the scandals, rather than on the group’s ideas, social experiments or artistic development: Ruskin’s loveless marriage and critical championing of Millais, who then went off with Effie Ruskin, Rossetti’s various loves, above...
| Author | Robert Gottlieb |
| ISBN | 1466827769 |
The strange and varied lives of the ten children of the world’s most beloved novelist
Charles Dickens, famous for the indelible child characters he created—from Little Nell to Oliver Twist and David Copperfield—was also the father of ten children (and a possible eleventh). What happened...
| Author | Edna O'Brien |
| ISBN | 2762123216 |
Although Edna O'Brien has never trafficked in James Joyce's head-over-heels brand of high modernism, she does have a couple of characteristics in common with her great predecessor. After all, both authors engaged in a profoundly ambivalent excoriation of their native Ireland. And while O'Brien's...
| Author | Jerrold E. Hogle |
| ISBN | 0521794668 |
Fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying genre from the 1760s to the end of the twentieth century. Essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theater, Romantic...
| Author | Park Honan |
| ISBN | 1904435815 |
Drawing on diaries, memoirs, and letters written by members of the Austen family,this sympathetic and probing biography enters the private world of Jane Austen, revealing experiences and observations she drew upon to write such masterpieces as Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice,...
To Purge This Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown
| Author | Stephen B. Oates |
| ISBN | 0870234587 |
One hundred thirty-five years after his epochal Harpers Ferry raid to free the slaves, John Brown is still one of the most controversial figures in American history. In 1970, Stephen B. Oates wrote what has come to be recognized as the definitive biography of Brown, a balanced assessment that captures...
| Author | Miranda Seymour |
| ISBN | 0802117023 |
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Washington Post Best Book of 2001, Mary Shelley has been called "a harrowing life, wonderfully retold" (The Washington Post). This "splendid biography" (The New Yorker) gracefully moves through the dramatic life of the woman behind history's most legendary...
| Author | Joan Aiken |
| ISBN | 0312193750 |
Harriet Ward, known as Hatty by her sisters Lady Bertram and Mrs. Norris of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, does not at the age of twelve seem destined for a career of infamy. However, treated with utter contempt by all except her mother, who is near death, she is sent to her uncle's estate in Portsmouth,...
| Author | Katherine Frank |
| ISBN | 0449906612 |
I always feel a certain amount of voyeuristic guilt in reading biographies, particularly those of private people. Any woman whose last words were "If you will send for a doctor, I will see him now." clearly knew what she wanted out of life, and what Emily Bronte wanted was to be left alone.
In the...
| Author | Shirley Hazzard |
| ISBN | 0374527776 |
When friends die, one's own credentials change: one becomes a survivor. Graham Greene has already had biographers, one of whom has served him mightily. Yet I hope that there is room for the remembrance of a friend who knew him-not wisely, perhaps, but fairly well-on an island that was "not his kind of...
Zelda Sayre nasce nell'aprile dell'anno 1900. Nel luglio del 1918, a una festa da ballo in cui è contesa da cavalieri come la più corteggiata fanciulla d'Alabama, conosce un giovane ufficiale: Francis Scott Fitzgerald. È un amore totale, geloso e tormentato fin da principio. I due si sposeranno...
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
| Author | Doris Lessing |
| ISBN | 0060926643 |
"I was born with skins too few. Or they were scrubbed off me by...robust and efficient hands."
The experiences absorbed through these "skins too few" are evoked in this memoir of Doris Lessing's childhood and youth as the daughter of a British colonial family in Persia and Southern Rhodesia...
