Daisy Hay

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“Daisy Hay’s nuanced readings of Mary Shelley’s works, combined with photographs of manuscripts, books or physical artefacts from the collection, give readers a vivid picture of Mary Shelley’s time and how she translates life into art. As Hay in the concluding chapter argues, Frankenstein—as a productive, ethical and political metaphor—articulates the anxieties of an age inundated with {{w|emerging technologies}}, innovations and sudden changes.”

“As with all the best {{w|biographer}}s, Hay makes her readers drag their feet towards the end, reluctant to part company with people she has made us know and feel for. Her book has turned the {{w|Mary Anne Disraeli|Disraelis}}’ uneven romance into a real love story. How pleased they would have been.”

“In 1980 Earl Anderson published an article in {{w|Eighteenth-Century Studies}} on the history of foot races in which he characterised the old women's race in {{w|Evelina}} as a delightful instance. That view, thankfully, is not replicated elsewhere. Pioneering Burney scholars, including {{w|Margaret Doody|Margaret Anne Doody}} and Kristina Straub, have read the race as symbolic of a social system that dehumanises women and is a literalisation of male brutality.”