Name: Mary Shelley
ISBN: 978-0-333-69830-3

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John Williams

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Part of the book series: Literary Lives (LL)

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Keywords

fiction
novel
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British and Irish Literature

About this book

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.

About the author

JOHN WILLIAMS has been a reader in Literary Studies in the School of Humanities at the University of Greenwich since 1993. His publications have included books on English poetry, Reading Poetry (1985) and Twentieth Century British Poetry (1987). In 1989 he published William Wordsworth: Romantic Poetry and Revolution Politics. He is currently editor of The Powys Journal.

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Mary Shelley
Book Subtitle: A Literary Life
Authors: John Williams
Series Title: Literary Lives
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-69830-3Published: 31 March 2000
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-69831-0Published: 22 March 2000
Series ISSN: 2946-2037
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2045
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 209

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