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Shelley's Ghost - Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family (Paperback)
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Shelley's Ghost - Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family (Paperback)
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Few families enjoy such a remarkable reputation for their
contribution to the literature and intellectual life of Britain as
the Godwins and the Shelleys. Yet this reputation was shaped in a
subtle way by the selective release of literary manuscripts into
the public realm and the suppression of others. This book explores
the lives and posthumous reputations of Percy Bysshe Shelley, his
wife Mary Shelley, and Mary's parents, William Godwin and Mary
Wollstonecraft. It tells the story of how Mary Shelley, haunted by
the past, directly sought to enhance the public's appreciation of
her husband and parents by the selective publication of relevant
manuscripts. It also explains how she passed on this legacy to her
son, Sir Percy Florence Shelley and his wife, Jane, Lady Shelley.
As guardian of the archive until giving part of it to the Bodleian
in 1893-4, Lady Shelley too helped shape the posthumous reputations
of these important writers. Drawing on the Bodleian Library's
outstanding collections of letters, literary manuscripts, rare
printed books and pamphlets, portraits and relics, including
Shelley's working notebooks, a letter from Keats to Shelley,
William Godwin's diary, and the original manuscripts of Mary
Shelley's Frankenstein, Stephen Hebron charts the history of a
family blessed with genius but marred by tragedy. The final chapter
by Elizabeth C. Denlinger of the New York Public Library explores
the material relating to the Shelley family that slipped beyond the
family's control. Reproducing many of the archive documents and
Shelley relics, this highly illustrated book accompanies an
exhibition at the Bodleian Library, Dove Cottage, Grasmere and the
New York Public Library.
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