Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, pp. 11-43.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Standard Name: Shelley, Percy Bysshe
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is one of the six major (male) English Romantic poets.
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Jean Rhys | JR
attended the local Catholic convent school where whites were in the minority. Most of the girls were coloured (of mixed blood). Mother Mount Calvary, the Superior of the convent, gave her extra instruction in... |
| Education | Jean Rhys | At a very young age, JR
imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Laura Riding | In probably February 1924 LR
began a brief but passionate affair with writer Allen Tate
, whom she called Alastor after Shelley
's poem of that title. After her first marriage ended in divorce, LR |
| Education | Christina Rossetti | Christina and her siblings were educated by their mother
, in reading, writing, the Bible and rudimentary French. The boys were sent to school when they were seven, while the girls continued at home. Their... |
| Birth | Evelyn Sharp | One brother died before Evelyn was born, and another during the family's year of foreign travel. She had two younger brothers. She called her birthday a fine revolutionary anniversary because it was also the birthday... |
| Residence | Mary Shelley | Mary and Percy Shelley
moved into Albion House, Marlow. Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge. xvi |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Shelley | When Mary first met Percy Shelley
, he was about to embark on serious publication. Between 1813 and 1821, he published several major works, including Queen Mab, Epipsychidion, The Cenci, and his... |
| Travel | Mary Shelley | Mary and Percy Shelley
, with their two children William and baby Clara, left England for Italy. Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses. 44 Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown. 149-50 Shelley, Mary. “Chronology”. The Journals of Mary Shelley: 1814-1844, edited by Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, p. xxxvii - xlii. xxxviii |
| Publishing | Mary Shelley | In 1876 H. Buxton Forman
edited and privately printed a poem by MS
entitled The Choice: a Poem on Shelley
's Death. This was reprinted several times in the 1970s. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Residence | Mary Shelley | MS
and her family
settled briefly in Bagni di Lucca in Italy. Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press. 213 Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, pp. 11-43. 42 |
| Textual Features | Mary Shelley | When she resumed her journal after Percy Shelley
's death she headed it The Journal of Sorrow—Begun 1822. But for my Child it could not End too soon. Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press. 428 |
| Residence | Mary Shelley | MS
moved from Bagni di Lucca to Este and then to join her husband
in Venice, where he had gone to visit Byron
. Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press. 226-7 Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge. xvii Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown. 157-8 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Shelley | |
| Residence | Mary Shelley | MS
joined her husband
in Naples after a journey which was long and tiring but not so dangerous as they had anticipated. They watched the flame from Mount Vesuvius as they drove along. Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press. 239-41 Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, pp. 11-43. 42 Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown. 161 Shelley, Mary. “Chronology”. The Journals of Mary Shelley: 1814-1844, edited by Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press, p. xxxvii - xlii. xxxviii |
| Textual Production | Mary Shelley | The manuscript of Frankenstein, now in the Bodleian Library
and featuring the hands of both MS
and her husband
, forms the centrepiece of the Shelley-Godwin Archive (http://shelleygodwinarchive.org/), whose first phase was opened to... |
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