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Stay tuned!

January 13, 2016 By Ying Leave a Comment

Hello, friends. I'm very excited about my blog post this week, which will go live at the History Girls on Friday. That's when I'll interview Mackenzi Lee, whose historical fantasy debut, This Monstrous Thing, rocked my reading world in November. We'll be talking about inspiration, taking liberties with history, and the scandalous Mary Shelley and her circle. Please do join us on Friday! … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Things I Read Tagged With: interview, Mackenzi Lee, Mary Shelley, The History Girls, Things I Read

I was wrong

February 19, 2014 By Ying 4 Comments

Hello, friends. Last week I mentioned my new and rather frantic interest in Fanny Imlay/Godwin/Wollstonecraft. After Judith Chernaik's Mab's Daughters and Janet Todd's Death and the Maidens, my reading led me to Daisy Hay's Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation, and I am so glad it did. I'll start by confessing that I was never especially enamoured of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Things I Read Tagged With: Daisy Hay, Fanny Godwin, Fanny Imlay, Fanny Wollstonecraft, genius, John Keats, Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, reading, Romantic poetry

The woman without a name

February 12, 2014 By Ying 6 Comments

Hello, friends. Recently, I mentioned reading and loving Claire Tomalin's biography of Mary Wollstonecraft. I've now become completely obsessed with the question of Mary Wollstonecraft's elder daughter, Fanny. Fanny was born in 1794 in revolutionary Paris, the result of a short, passionate affair between Wollstonecraft and a handsome, fickle, frequently dishonest American named Gilbert Imlay. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Things I Read Tagged With: biography, Fanny Godwin, Fanny Imlay, Fanny Wollstonecraft, genius, Janet Todd, Judith Chernaik, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Bysshe Shelley, reading, Romantic poetry, suicide, William Godwin

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