Description

Printed in 1918 for members of The Bibliophile Society of Boston in a limited edition, this collection gathers letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), most of them then unpublished. Written after the death of Percy Bysshe Shelley, they follow the widowed author of Frankenstein through grief, financial hardship, the raising of her son and the long labour of establishing her husband’s poetic reputation. Henry H. Harper supplies an introduction and notes setting the correspondence in its biographical context. A primary source for students of the Shelley circle and of English Romanticism. Faithful facsimile reprint of the Boston edition of 1918.