Frankenstein and His Women. Five Englishwomen in Search of Happiness

“Behind every great man, there is always a woman.” But why behind him? This has historically been the case. Thus, the life of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley is closely intertwined with the fates of five women — and what is... known about them? Infinitely little, even about his second wife Mary Shelley, the creator of the famous novel “Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus.” And as for the others... His first wife Harriet and sister-in-law Fanny Imlay died quite young, while friend Claire Clairmont lived to old age and left diaries. In this book, they will be heard for the first time in the Russian language and will recount, among other things, the years she spent in Russia as a governess in the first quarter of the 19th century. Five young Englishwomen dreamed of happiness — and what happened? Let them speak, let them tell their own stories. And help today's women better understand themselves. Nina Agisheva