ABSTRACT
This volume sheds light on contemporary perception of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, a biographically and intellectually compelling literary family of the Romantic period. The writings reveal the personalities of the subjects, and the motives and agendas of the biographers.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|4 pages
‘Review of Frankenstein in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 2 (March 1818)
part 2|6 pages
Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London, 1824) & ‘Review of Frankenstein; or; The Modern Prometheus’ in The Athenæum (November 1832)
part 4|7 pages
‘Letter to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’ (March 1836) in The Clairmont Correspondence edited by Marion Kingston Stocking, 2 vols (London & Baltimore, 1995)
part 5|4 pages
Letters, Conversations and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge edited by Thomas Allsop, 2 vols (London, 1836)
part 6|6 pages
‘Review of Falkner’ in Monthly Repository (April 1837)
part 7|4 pages
The Private Journal of Aaron Burr edited by Matthew Davis, 2 vols (New York, 1838)
part 8|5 pages
‘Review of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley’ and ‘Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations, and Fragments by Percy Bysshe Shelley’ in The Athenæum (December 1839)
part 9|2 pages
A New Spirit of the Age (London, 1844)
part 10|5 pages
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 2 vols (London, 1847) & The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, A New Edition (London, 1913)
part 12|5 pages
‘Female Authors, no. 3, Mrs. Shelley’ in Tail’s Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 14 (Edinburgh, 1847)
part 13|6 pages
Fifty Years’ Recollections, 3 vols (London, 1858)
part 14|9 pages
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 2 vols (London, 1858) & Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Letter to Thomas Jefferson Hogg’ in Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley edited by Frederick Jones, 2 vols (Oxford, 1964)
part 16|8 pages
Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London, 1858)
part 17|3 pages
Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources, edited by Lady [Jane] Shelley (London, 1859)
part 18|21 pages
Traits of Character; Being Twenty-Five Years’ Literary and Personal Recollections, 2 vols (London, 1860) & ‘Letter to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’ (July 1828) in Comparative Literature, vol. 31 (1979)
part 20|8 pages
‘Shelley By One Who Knew Him’ in The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 11 (February 1863)
part 21|6 pages
Threading My Way: Twenty-Seven Years of Autobiography (London, 1874)
part 22|6 pages
Recollections of Writers (London, 1878)
part 23|2 pages
Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner (Boston, 1893)
part 24|7 pages
The Life of Mrs. Norton (New York, 1909)
part 25|10 pages
The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori edited by William Rossetti (London, 1911)
part 26|4 pages
‘Letter to Anna Jameson’ (June 1830) in Anna Jameson, Letters and Friendships edited by Mrs Steuart Erskine (London, 1915)
part 27|5 pages
‘Letter to William Baxter’ (June 1812) in Mrs [Florence A.] Julian Marshall, Life and Letters of Mary Shelley (London, 1889) & ‘Mary Shelley: A Local Reminiscence’ in The Dundee Advertiser (September 1897)