The Journals of Mary Shelley

About this book

The definitive account of Mary Shelleys 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 husbands 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 Shelleys social circles in Pisa and London the Shelleys reading lists and a bibliography.