Mary Shelly: The Romance and the Reality

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19870823
Author:Brian Aldiss

MARY SHELLEY By Muriel Spark William Abrahams/Dutton. 248 pp. $19.95 THE JOURNALS OF MARY SHELLEY 1814-1844 Edited by Paula R. Feldman And Diana Scott-Kilvert Oxford University Press. Two vols. 735 pp. $84

IT IS RARE for an author long dead to be re-evaluated and raised to a more prominent position in the hierarchy of letters. It happened to John Donne, under the influence of T. S. Eliot. Under the influence of no one more eminent than the Common Reader has Mary Shelley been restored to favor, some 130 years after her death.

Once, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's name was merely one ...

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