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The Troubled Last Years of Mary Shelley

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19880828
Author:Brian W. Aldiss

THE LETTERS OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

Volume III

"What Years I Have Spent!"

Edited by Betty T. Bennett

The Johns Hopkins University Press

473 pp. $37.50

BY THE TIME this third volume of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's letters opens in 1840, both Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron are long dead. Mary Shelley, who will die 11 years later at the age of 53, is living in England, poor and worrying about the cost of firewood. Another survivor from the Geneva days is Claire Claremont, Mary Shelley's stepsister, mother of Byron's illegitimate daughter, Allegra. Many of these letters are ...

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