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The letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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The letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley reveal a remarkable woman living in a remarkable age. They date from October 1814 - shortly after her elopement with Percy Bysshe Shelley - through September 1850, five months before her death.

Her correspondents' names are familiar - Shelley himself, Byron, Bulwer-Lytton, Disraeli, General Lafayette, Sir Walter Scott - and the letters abound with anecdotes about such eminent figures as her parents (William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft), Keats, Washington Irving, and Charles and Mary Lamb.

Publication of the widely acclaimed three-volume edition of Mary Shelley's letters was completed in 1988, containing all 1,276 of her known extant letters. Now Betty T. Bennett has selected 230 of those letters to give an overview of Mary Shelley's life as she was seeing it, living it, and recording it. Bennett also includes an introductory essay that sketches a portrait of Mary Shelley, her world, and her place in the history of literature and letters.

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Selected letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1995, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Selected lettersof Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1995, Johns Hopkins University Press
in English
Cover of: Selected letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Selected letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1995, Johns Hopkins University Press
in English
Cover of: The  letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1980, Johns Hopkins University Press
in English
Cover of: The  letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1980, Johns Hopkins University Press
in English
Cover of: The  letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Cover of: The  letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Cover of: The  letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Table of Contents

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{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'v. 2. "Treading in unknown paths."'}
{'level': 0, 'label': '', 'pagenum': '', 'title': 'v. 3. "What years I have spent!"'}

Edition Notes

Includes indexes.
Bibliography: v. 1, p. xxix-xxxvi.

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Baltimore, USA

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Dewey Decimal Class
823/.7, B
Library of Congress
PR5398 .A4 1980, PR5398

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Pagination
3 v. :

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4419922M
Internet Archive
lettersofmarywol01shel
ISBN 10
0801822750
LCCN
79024190
OCLC/WorldCat
5706648
Library Thing
422462
Goodreads
810113

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