Hyena's Daughter
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- ISBN 9781068176609
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 03 Apr 2026
- Publisher: Weatherglass Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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From Ali Smith:
“The Hyena’s Daughter tells the far-too-untold story of a c19th sisterhood, the daughters of Mary Wollstonecraft: Fanny Imlay and Mary Shelley, the famed writer of Frankenstein, plus their step-sister Claire Clairmont, lover of Lord Byron.
Are they the three graces? The fates? They’re women, as alive and breathing and rebellious and analytical as you and me, and well aware and critical of the hemmed-in nature they’re expected to accept as women of their time – a time of “a new way of thinking, a new-world independence, a revolutionary world.”
It features their connection to Percy Bysshe Shelley – “how could we not love him, with his lofty ethics and words that flew like birds?” –and many of the other contemporary poets and thinkers of the time.
Pacy and assured, it turns its history to life from fragment to sensuous fragment. If the dead brought to life is to be Mary Shelley’s theme, this novella asks what the real source of life spirit is, the vital spark. This book, full of detail and richesse, is a piece of vitality in itself.”
Jupiter Jones is the winner of the Philip Hoare Prize for creative non-fiction and
the Colm Tóibín International Short Story Prize.
She is the author of three previous novellas: The Death and Life of Mrs Parker;
Lovelace Flats; and Gull Shit Alley and Other Roads to Hell.
