England's First Family of Writers

A collective consideration of Wollstonecraft, Godwin, and Shelley with “extended and sophisticated readings of many of [their] neglected works” ( Choice ). Life and literature were inseparable for Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, and Mary Shelley. In  England’s First Family of Writers , Julie A. Carlson demonstrates how and why the works of these individuals can best be understood within the context of the family unit in which they were created. The first to consider their writing colle