Mary Shelley as editor of Percy Shelley

Allen, Richard (2001). Mary Shelley as editor of Percy Shelley. In: Bellamy, Joan; Laurence, Anne and Perry, Gillian eds. Women, Scholarship and Criticism: Gender & knowledge c.1790-1900. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 77–90.

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Abstract

This chapter explores Mary Shelley's work as the founding editor of Percy Shelley's poetry. It sets out the circumstances of Mary Shelley's life after the death of Percy Shelley, her financial dependence on Percy Shelley's father, and the restrictions placed on publication by Shelley's father. It then sets out the strategies Mary Shelley used to construct a biography of Percy Shelley from the poem, thus establishing a Romantic biography of Percy Shelley which has endured into the 20th century,

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