A review by imclaugh
Hideous Love: The Story of the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein by Stephanie Hemphill

5.0

I picked this book up on a whim while in the library and literally could not put it down until I'd finished. Certainly the poetry doesn't measure up to a Ted Hughes, for example, but it flows for the most part, largely avoids anachronisms, and most of all flows with a passion that makes its subject come alive. A compelling portrait of a misunderstood author that has much to teach us about Western woman's ongoing, if ultimately quixotic, struggle for self-expression and intellectual independence.