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
The Fraser's Magazine review discerned in this novel a depth and sweep of thought—a knowledge of human kind, in its manifold relations with this earth—and a boldness and directness in penetrating the recesses and displaying...
Textual Production
Mary Shelley
There was excitement in the scholarly world about the fairly recent attribution to the ten-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
of a printed ballad entitled Mounseer Nongtongpaw, 1808. But Shelley's biographer Emily Sunstein
has revealed that...
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Texts
Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown, 1989.