Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D., Anglia Ruskin University).

We know the facts of Mary Shelley’s life in some detail—the death of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, within days of her birth; the upbringing in the house

History tells us a story of ourselves--without it, we lack a language with which to articulate not only where we come from, but in fact who we are.

The magnificent collection of "Shelley and His Circle" manuscripts in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library is one of our finest sources for the English Romantic move