Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPromises to be the definitive biography of Mary Shelley... Sunstein is to be praised for looking anew at so misunderstood a life. New York Times Beyond question Shelley scholars and 19th-century specialists will value this usefully annotated and carefully produced edition; it may also be that anyone would enjoy the stories themselves... and the accompanying original engravings. -- Diane Johnson Washington Post
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Aspiring Child
Chapter 1. "My Brilliant Star"
Chapter 2. "To Be Something Great And Good"
Chapter 3. "The Time of My Girlish Troubles"
Chapter 4. "My Choice!"
Part II: Romance
Chapter 5. "France – Poverty – A Few Days of Solitude & Some Uneasiness"
Chapter 6. "A Tranquil Residence in A Beautiful Spot"
Chapter 7. "Switzerland – Bath"
Chapter 8. "Marlow"
Chapter 9. "Milan – The Baths of Lucca – Este – Venice – Rome – Naples – Rome & Misery"
Chapter 10. "Leghorn – Florence Pisa –"
Chapter 11. "Solitude The Williams – The Baths"
Chapter 12. "Pisa" – The Last Chapter With Shelley
Part III: Heroism
Chapter 13. "Magnificent, Deep, Pathetic, Wild and Exalted"
Chapter 14. "The Regions of the Has Been, Is, & To Be"
Chapter 15. "The Union of Kentish Town"
Chapter 16. "Ingratitude, Caprice, and Change"
Part IV: The World
Chapter 17. "A New Kind of Life"
Chapter 18. "The Great Disappointment of my Life"
Chapter 19. "Do Not Awaken the Deep Waters"
Chapter 20. "Amore Redivivus"
Chapter 21. "I Will Sit Admidst the Ruins and Smile"
Chapter 22. Romance and Reality
Appendix A "Stanazas"
Appendix B Mary Shelley's Works
Chapter Notes
Index
