MS
's toddler son, William, died in Rome, of an infectious disease not certainly identified.
Of writers on MS
, Emily Sunstein
says his illness was probably cholera or typhoid; Anne Mellor
says it was malaria.
Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown, 1989.
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Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
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Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown, 1989.
166-7
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
xvii
Literary responses
Mary Shelley
When theoretical critic Barbara Johnson
composed an essay on MS
in 1980 she was choosing, for a symposium on Jacques Derrida
, a relatively unknown topic—yet for the rest of her career she found she...
FH
was slow to register on the radar of recuperative feminist critics. Cora Kaplan
was an early exception in her anthology Salt and Bitter and Good, 1975.Margaret Homans
in her early attempt to...
Reception
L. E. L.
More recently, however, LEL has been subject to critical revaluation, as feminist critics have questioned the historical processes and aesthetic standards that led to her exclusion from the literary canon, and are developing increasingly complex...
Textual Features
Joanna Baillie
Countess Albini in Count Basil is a heroine in the same mould as Jane De Monfort: critic Anne Mellor
calls her not only the embodiment of rational judgement but also Baillie's homage to Mary Wollstonecraft
Timeline
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Texts
Wolfson, Susan J. “Individual in Community: Dorothy Wordsworth in Conversation with William”. Romanticism and Feminism, edited by Anne K. Mellor, Indiana University Press, 1988, pp. 139-66.
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988.
Mellor, Anne K. Romanticism and Gender. Routledge, 1993.
Curran, Stuart. “The I Altered”. Romanticism and Feminism, edited by Anne K. Mellor, Indiana University Press, 1988, pp. 185-07.