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...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Shelley
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.
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Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge.
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Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown.
166-7
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge.
xvii
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Texts
Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown, 1989.