The definitive account of Mary Shelley's life from her own pen is now available in a single softcover volume. Here we see even more vividly than in her letters her sympathetic identification with nature and her struggles with--and ultimate surrender to--the lifelong depression that followed her husband's death. Supplementing the text are extensive annotations, a chronology, a thorough index, maps of the Shelleys' travels, portraits of acquaintances, appendices giving biographical accounts of the members of Mary Shelley's social circles in Pisa and London, the Shelleys' reading lists, and a bibliography.
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"Although [Mary Shelley] would be appalled at the thought of her secret sorrows being transcribed for all eyes, she was a good enough scholar to appreciate the fine work of her present editors." -- Claire Tomalin, New York Review of Books.
"[A] lavishly well-documented edition... Paula Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert guide the reader through the labyrinth of the Shelleys' (and Godwins') legal and financial difficulties, correct the diarist's inaccuracies and chronology, and check her entries against other sources." -- Chris Baldick, Times Literary Supplement.
"Meticulously edited and fascinatingly annotated... [this volume is] a mine of information about the entire Shelley circle, and will have permanent value for anyone seriously interested in the Romantic period." -- The Year's Work in English Studies.
"A fine scholarly edition." -- Brian Aldiss, Washington Post Book World
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Paula R. Feldman is professor of English at the University of South Carolina. Diana Scott-Kilvert is an independent scholar.
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Mary Godwin had returned to her father's house at 41 Skinner Street, Holborn, on 30 March 1814. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
one leaf torn, one page blank, steamboat project, leaf stub, cursory strictures, manuscript cut, greek lesson, divine day, missing leaves, pages measure, first notebook Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir Timothy, Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron, Casa Silva, Abinger Dep, Thomas Moore, Marianne Hunt, Sir Walter Scott, William Godwin, Don Quixote, Mary Shelley, Horace Smith, Maria Gisborne, John Dean Paul, Paradise Lost, Percy Florence, Canto of Tasso, Hume's England, Julia Robinson, John Fletcher, Miss Curran, Edward Williams, Lady Morgan, Sir Bysshe, Buxton Forman New!
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Mary Godwin had returned to her father's house at 41 Skinner Street, Holborn, on 30 March 1814. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
one leaf torn, one page blank, steamboat project, leaf stub, cursory strictures, manuscript cut, greek lesson, divine day, missing leaves, pages measure, first notebook Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir Timothy, Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron, Casa Silva, Abinger Dep, Thomas Moore, Marianne Hunt, Sir Walter Scott, William Godwin, Don Quixote, Mary Shelley, Horace Smith, Maria Gisborne, John Dean Paul, Paradise Lost, Percy Florence, Canto of Tasso, Hume's England, Julia Robinson, John Fletcher, Miss Curran, Edward Williams, Lady Morgan, Sir Bysshe, Buxton Forman New!
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