It is difficult to think of a family more endowed with literary genius than the Shelley family--from the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife, novelist Mary Shelley, to Mary's parents, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft--all were authors in their own right. Using extensive archival material, Shelley's Ghost explores the making of this remarkable literary family's reputation.
Drawing on the Bodleian Library's outstanding collection of letters, poetry manuscripts, rare printed books, portraits, and other personalia--including Shelley's working notebooks, Keats's...
It is difficult to think of a family more endowed with literary genius than the Shelley family--from the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his...