{"id":4543,"date":"2018-01-18T11:40:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T17:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4543"},"modified":"2018-02-01T09:15:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T15:15:06","slug":"lita-and-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=4543","title":{"rendered":"Lita and Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"

“<\/strong><\/font>I wanted to write about Mary Shelley for over a decade after I learned that she was a pregnant teenage run-away when she wrote her novel, <\/em>Frankenstein. That blew me away. Why did I not know more about her life when she should have been an incredible role model to young women? We\u2019ve all heard the popular myth that Frankenstein was conceived spontaneously on a stormy night when the poet Lord Byron dared a small party of fellow expatriates to write ghost stories. But the myth strips away the identity of the brilliant young woman who wrote one of the most influential novels of the Romantic era and places credit for its inspiration in the hands of a man. Countless events in Mary\u2019s life before and after that evening played a much greater role in the horror novel\u2019s creation.\u201d<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Over at Kirkus<\/em> today, I talk with author-illustrator Lita Judge<\/a><\/strong>, pictured here, about her new book about Mary Shelley (and her first YA book), which she describes as “part biography, part visual fantasy, and part feminist allegory.” Mary\u2019s Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein<\/em> (Roaring Brook Press) hits shelves this month. <\/p>\n

The Q&A is here<\/a><\/strong>. Next week, I’ll follow up here at 7-Imp with some art from the book. <\/p>\n

Until tomorrow …<\/p>\n

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Photo of Lita Judge taken by Ben Conant.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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