Conger, Syndy McMillen. “Multivocality in Mary Shelley’s Unfinished Memoirs of Her Father”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
9
, No. 3, pp. 303-22. 303, 319n1
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Mary Shelley | MS
promised that she would soon be publishing her father
's posthumous memoirs, completed and edited by herself. Conger, Syndy McMillen. “Multivocality in Mary Shelley’s Unfinished Memoirs of Her Father”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 9 , No. 3, pp. 303-22. 303, 319n1 |
Publishing | Mary Shelley | MS
wrote an enthusiastic and knowledgeable review of her father
's novel Cloudesley (for Blackwood's). Clemit, Patricia. “Mary Shelley and William Godwin: a literary-political partnership, 1823-1836”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, pp. 285-95. 294n17 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Shelley | MS
's father, radical writer and philosopher William Godwin
, remarried in 1801. Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses. 22, 24, 28 Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge. xv, 6 Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown. 27 |
Occupation | Mary Shelley | MS
supported herself and Percy Florence through her writing—novels and journalism—and editing. He, through her earnings, was educated at Harrow School
and Cambridge University
. She also supported her aging father
until his death in 1836. Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses. 52-4 Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, pp. 9-45. 10-11 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Shelley | On his death on 7 April 1836, Godwin
left MS
all his papers. Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, pp. 9-45. 45 Conger, Syndy McMillen. “Multivocality in Mary Shelley’s Unfinished Memoirs of Her Father”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 9 , No. 3, pp. 303-22. 320n12 |
Dedications | Mary Shelley | |
Publishing | Mary Shelley | In 1823 William Godwin
(inspired by a successful dramatisation of his daughter's novel, playing at the Lyceum Theatre
in London as Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein) arranged a second edition for MS
's... |
Literary responses | Mary Shelley | The Quarterly Review was horrified by Frankenstein's tissue of horrible and disgusting absurdity, Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 18 (1818): 382 Quarterly Review. J. Murray. 18 (1818): 382 |
Textual Production | Mary Shelley | MS
began to work seriously on this novel in late 1820. Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, pp. 413-24. 414 Chawton House Library Catalogue. http://www.chawton.org/library/index.html. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Shelley | She began work on it in probably early 1827, with Godwin
's encouragement. He had done research on the same period five years before, and shared his daughter's view that Richard III was not so... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Shelley | The title may have been suggested by Falkland, a key character in Godwin
's Caleb Williams. The novel takes up several points in his Deloraine, 1833. Falkner causes the death of his wife... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (later Shelley)
bore a son, whom she named William after her father
. Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, pp. 11-43. 41 |
Textual Production | Mary Shelley | Pickering and Chatto
have included MS
in The Pickering Masters. Their eight volumes of her Novels and Selected Works, edited by Nora Crook
with Patricia Clemit
and others, 1996, includes her travel writing... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Shelley | |
Textual Production | Charlotte Smith | CS
wrote the Prologue for William Godwin
's unsuccessful tragedy, Antonio, published in 1800. Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan. 288 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
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