The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

This volume considers the work and life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851). It looks not only at  Frankenstein  and its composition, sources, themes and reception but at the wide range of other work by Shelley including such novels as  The Last Man  and  Mathilda  and her tales, reviews, travel writing and the (until recently neglected) Literary Lives of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French writers. There are detailed entries on her personal and/or litera