The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844: 1822-1844

Download or read book The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844: 1822-1844 written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York ; Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of Mary Shelley's life from her own pen is now available in a single softcover volume. Here we see even more vividly than in her letters her sympathetic identification with nature and her struggles with--and ultimate surrender to--the lifelong depression that followed her husband's death. Supplementing the text are extensive annotations, a chronology, a thorough index, maps of the Shelleys' travels, portraits of acquaintances, appendices giving biographical accounts of the members of Mary Shelley's social circles in Pisa and London, the Shelleys' reading lists, and a bibliography.