Add to ORKGMary Shelley's Life of William Godwin is an incomplete biography of a major author of the Enlightenment by his daughter, a major Romantic author. The working title 'Life of William Godwin' was affixed some time ago by the Bodleian to a sheaf of papers dated 1835 to 1839, the majority in the handwriting of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, forming an 'unfinished' and 'abortive' biographical memoir of her late father. In July 1836, Godwin s widow Mary Jane signed a contract with publisher Henry Colburn [Bodleian, MS. Eng. lett. c. 461, fol. 153] for a two-volume 'Memoirs and Correspondence of the late William Godwin', to be written by Mary Shelley, who referred to it while it was in preparation as 'my Father's Life'. At this period, she was 'Mrs S...
The works of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley have long been analyzed and dissected from a liter...
Even before P.B. Shelley’s drowning, Mary Shelley’s first stay in Italy was marred by the death of h...
Shelley is one of the best poets of the period of English romanticism. He belongs to the second grou...
When writing Frankenstein as a young, impressionable woman, Mary Shelley was heavily influenced by t...
The following text is taken from the publisher's website: "William Godwin's memoir of his wife, Mar...
Mary Shelley wrote the largest amount of literary biography at a time when the British reading publi...
The past few decades have seen a revival of interest in the social philosophy of William Godwin and ...
This paper focuses on Mary Shelley’s letter to her friend Maria Gisborne. In this letter Mary Shelle...
Her father was philosopher William Godwin. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was feminism's founder. ...
[eng] After the death of Mary Wollstonecraft, her recently widowed husband and radical philosopher ...
The Oxford Handbook of Shelley takes stock of current developments in the study of a major Romantic ...
This chapter explores Mary Shelley's work as the founding editor of Percy Shelley's poetry. It sets ...
Shelley's biographers have usually made little attempt to give a connected interpretation of the fac...
The restorative power of biography in recognising ‘forgotten lives’ is well established. In the fiel...
Mary is a creative thesis told in first-person vignettes spaced throughout Mary Wollstonecraft Shell...
The works of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley have long been analyzed and dissected from a liter...
Even before P.B. Shelley’s drowning, Mary Shelley’s first stay in Italy was marred by the death of h...
Shelley is one of the best poets of the period of English romanticism. He belongs to the second grou...
When writing Frankenstein as a young, impressionable woman, Mary Shelley was heavily influenced by t...
The following text is taken from the publisher's website: "William Godwin's memoir of his wife, Mar...
Mary Shelley wrote the largest amount of literary biography at a time when the British reading publi...
The past few decades have seen a revival of interest in the social philosophy of William Godwin and ...
This paper focuses on Mary Shelley’s letter to her friend Maria Gisborne. In this letter Mary Shelle...
Her father was philosopher William Godwin. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was feminism's founder. ...
[eng] After the death of Mary Wollstonecraft, her recently widowed husband and radical philosopher ...
The Oxford Handbook of Shelley takes stock of current developments in the study of a major Romantic ...
This chapter explores Mary Shelley's work as the founding editor of Percy Shelley's poetry. It sets ...
Shelley's biographers have usually made little attempt to give a connected interpretation of the fac...
The restorative power of biography in recognising ‘forgotten lives’ is well established. In the fiel...
Mary is a creative thesis told in first-person vignettes spaced throughout Mary Wollstonecraft Shell...
The works of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley have long been analyzed and dissected from a liter...
Even before P.B. Shelley’s drowning, Mary Shelley’s first stay in Italy was marred by the death of h...
Shelley is one of the best poets of the period of English romanticism. He belongs to the second grou...