Miranda Seymour

Miranda Seymour biography of Mary Shelley was reissued last year. She is working on a biography of Jean Rhys. (February 2021)

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Promethean Women

Both Mary Wollstonecraft, darling of twentieth-century feminists, and her visionary daughter Mary Shelley continue to influence us today.

Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics

by Sylvana Tomaselli

Artificial Life After Frankenstein

by Eileen Hunt Botting

Frankenstein: The 1818 Edition with Related Texts

by Mary Shelley, edited and with an introduction and notes by David Wootton

February 25, 2021 issue

‘The Awful Force of Inanimate Things’

Machines in the Head: Selected Stories

by Anna Kavan, edited and with a foreword by Victoria Walker

May 28, 2020 issue

The Magnetic Polymath

Selected Writings

by Alexander von Humboldt, edited and with an introduction by Andrea Wulf

Alexander von Humboldt: How the Most Famous Scientist of the Romantic Age Found the Soul of Nature

by Maren Meinhardt

Humboldt’s Mexico: In the Footsteps of the Illustrious German Scientific Traveller

by Myron Echenberg

December 5, 2019 issue

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