Mary Shelley - (Becco Giallo + Comixology Originals) by Alessandro Di Virgilio (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The extraordinary life of the woman who created one of fiction's most enduring characters: Frankenstein's monster. Born at the turn of the 19th century to the famous philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft (forerunner of the feminist movement) and William Godwin (novelist and radical politician), Mary Shelley lived a life in constant flight from social conformity. Her struggle birthed a pop culture phenomenon. Now in print for the first time in English, Mary Shelley: The Eternal Dream chronicles Shelley's relationships with other important artists and writers, including her eventual husband Percy Shelley, and the "butterfly effect" of love, hardship, tragedy, and inspiration that led to the creation of the infamous monster.

About the Author

Manuela Santoni is an illustrator from the province of Rome. She was born in 1988, and after attending Artistic High School, she majored in Literature at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and graduated in 2012 in Art History. At the same time, she attended the "Scuola Romana" of Comics and she was selected for an annual Masters in Illustration Arts in 2013 at Macerata. Since 2017 she has taught at the school "Pencil Art" in Rome. She has illustrated narrative books for children: Girl R-Evolution (De Agostini, 2016) and Storie Proprio Buffe (Il Castoro, 2016), and is the author of Jane Austen (2017) and Le Sorelle Bronte (2018) for BeccoGiallo. She lives and works in Fonte Nuova, in the province of Rome.