Mary Shelley Makes a Monster

All our monsters are mirrors. And when Mary Shelley's monster - built from her life rather than her pen, born out of biography instead of blood - outlives its mother, that monster goes looking for a substitute. But all the monster really knows of women is that women write, and so the search for a replacement takes it first to Katherine Mansfield, and then to other women who know what mutilated things can be made from ink and mirrors... .