Mary Shelley

A Literary Life

By: John Williams

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Hardcover | 20 April 2016 | Edition Number 1

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Much of Mary Shelley's life reads like a compilation of some of the most lurid and sensationalist novels of her time. After the stormy years of her relationship with Percy Shelley, Mary went on to raise her one surviving son on her own, never sure of the loyalty of friends, threatened and intimidated by her dead husband's father. John Williams offers a thoughtful assessment of her literary achievement, set against the background of the evolution of the English novel in the politically volatile years of the early nineteenth century.

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'...an enjoyable, thought-provoking book that is a valuable contribution to Shelley studies...Mary Shelley in Her Times contains some of the strongest essays of recent times on Shelley's work.' - Professor Vincent Newey, The Byron Journal 'An intelligent, sympathetic, informative, and entertaining account of its subject.' - Gothic Studies

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Published: 8th March 2016

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Note on Abbreviations and Texts	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Parents	p. 7
Early Years, 1797-1814	p. 23
The Author of Frankenstein, 1814-20	p. 41
The Wife of Shelley, 1820-22	p. 71
The Widow of Shelley, 1822-26	p. 93
Writing to Live, 1826-34	p. 116
Fiction and the Marketplace: Lodore and Falkner, 1834-38	p. 137
The Editor of Shelley, 1838-39	p. 159
'Ten years which have made me old'	p. 181
Notes	p. 194
Further Reading	p. 201
Index	p. 204
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