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Fiona Sampson is a prize-winning poet and writer. She has been published in more than thirty languages and received an MBE for services to literature. A Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature, and the recipient of a number of national and international honours for her poetry, she has worked as an editor, translator, and university professor as well as a violinist. www.fionasampson.co.ukIf we get another literary biography in 2018 as astute and feelingful as this one, we shall be lucky.
- John Carey, Sunday Times
Gripping, vivid ... a fascinating book
The Times
Daringly swift and enjoyably irreverent
Observer
Sampson is as adept as Frankenstein himself, giving life to a figure who convincingly aches and bleeds ... the landscapes and interiors within which Sampson's subject moves are as crisply rendered as Frankenstein's own plane of Arctic ice.
Guardian
Fiona Sampson is a sleuth of a biographer ... rarely has my jaw dropped on so many occasions while reading a biography.
Daily Mail
Astonishing scenes are laid before the reader in the manner of vivid tableaux ... fascinating and ambitious.
Irish Times
[Gives] very real and valuable and sharp insights into the creative process of a work of genius.
Herald
It is a passionate demonstration of the elements that have kept her story vibrant for 200 years. It is moving, it is alive, it is a success.
- Elaine Showalter, Spectator
Fiona Sampson's study manages to illuminate her subject in prose that is both insightful and elegant.
The i
Powerful and contentious, waspish and insightful, this new account imbues both [Percy and Mary Shelley] with startling new life
Catholic Herald