How Muriel Spark rescued Mary Shelley | TLS

How Muriel Spark rescued Mary Shelley | TLS:

"I n 1950 the thirty-two-year-old tyro poet Muriel Spark drew up a proposal for a “Critical Biography” of Mary Shelley. The project was never going to be easy to sell to publishers. Spark was virtually unknown outside the London poetry scene and, in any case, there was little interest in female novelists of the nineteenth century. "