Seymour, Miranda

A masterful portrait of two remarkable women, revealing how two turbulent lives were always haunted by the dangerously enchanting, quicksilver spirit of that extraordinary father whom Ada never knew: Lord Byron.

A biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author of "Frankenstein," discussing her scandalous relationship with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, the literary circle in which she worked and lived, her creation of the legendary novel, and her life as a widow after Percy's death.

The story of Medea, daughter of Circe and wife of first Jason and then Aegeus of Athens.

Recreates the last twenty years of novelist Henry James's life in England.