Mary Shelley in Her Times

"Some of the strongest essays of recent times on Shelley's work . . . A valuable piece of criticism." —Byron Journal

Mary Shelley is largely remembered as the author of Frankenstein, as the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and as the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. This collection of essays, edited by Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran, offers a more complete and complex picture of Mary Shelley—author of six novels, five volumes of biographical lives, two travel books, a...