How long does it take to read Mary Shelley?
Miranda Seymour
Mary Shelley by Miranda Seymour takes about 12 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 1 minute
A week or two of reading
First published 2000. 655 pages, about 180,125 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Mary Shelley is the definitive account of the gifted and tragic author whose escape to France at seventeen with the married poet Percy Bysshe Shelley caused great scandal in London and permanently scarred her reputation. The couple traveled, with Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont in tow, from France to Italy and Switzerland. In the summer of 1816 they rented a villa near Lord Byron's on Lake Geneva where, on a famous night of eerie thunderstorms, they told ghost stories and tales of horror. From that night emerged the idea of Frankenstein, a monster who has become an archetype of societal rejection and has haunted imaginations for nearly two hundred years. His creator was an eighteen-year-old girl.". "Tragedy shadowed Mary; she came to lose three of her four children in infancy, and when she was twenty-four, Shelley drowned off the coast of Italy. After his death she moved back to a bleak and impoverished England with her only remaining child and was reduced to hack writing to make ends meet."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: English Authors, Authors, English, Biography, History, Authors, biography, English Women authors
