The author revises and expands the introduction she wrote for Pickering and Chatto’s eight-volume set, The Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley . It considers the breadth of Mary…

These eight volumes contain the works of Mary Shelley and include introductions and prefatory notes to each volume

This volume sheds light on contemporary perception of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, a biographically and intellectually compelling literary family of the Romantic period