Selected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801848865 ISBN 13: 9780801848865

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994

Synopsis

The letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley reveal a remarkable woman living in a remarkable age. They date from October 1814—shortly after her elopement with Percy Bysshe Shelley—through September 1850, five months before her death. Her correspondents' names are familiar—Shelley himself, Byron, Bulwer-Lytton, Disraeli, General Lafayette, Sir Walter Scott—and the letters abound with anecdotes about such eminent figures as her parents (William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft), Keats, Washington Irving, and Charles and Mary Lamb.

Publication of the widely acclaimed, three-volume edition of Mary Shelley's letters was completed in 1988, containing all 1,276 of her known extant letters. Now Betty T. Bennett has selected 230 of those letters to give an overview of Mary Shelley's life as she was seeing it, living it, and recording it. Bennett also includes an introductory essay that sketches a portrait of Mary Shelley, her world, and her place in the history of literature and letters.

About this title

About the Author:

Betty T. Bennett is dean of arts and sciences and professor of literature at the American University, Washington, D.C.

Review:

Not merely a marvelous piece of scholarship, but also an act of equity, of making good.

(Richard Holmes New York Times Book Review.)

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0801848865
• ISBN 13: 9780801848865
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Bennett Betty T.