The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Martin Garrett
This volume considers the work and life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851). It looks not only at <i>Frankenstein</i> and its composition, sources, themes and reception but at the wide range of other work by Shelley including such novels as <i>The Last Man</i> and <i>Mathilda</i> and her tales, reviews, travel writing and the (until recently neglected) Literary Lives of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French writers. There are detailed entries on her personal and/or literary relationship with her parents Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, Byron, Coleridge and Claire Clairmont; on her religion, feminism, politics, relation to Romanticism, portraits and representation in drama, film and television; and on the influence of her work on such writers as Poe, Elizabeth Gaskell, the Brontës, Dickens and H.G. Wells. <br>