The Independent - London, September 6th, 1998
The younger Romantic poets and their households led famously peripatetic lives, racketing round Europe shedding boxes, letters and even children en route. Mary Shelley lost a trunk containing all her juvenilia on one trip; it may yet turn up in some inefficient continental lost luggage office. The story behind the discovery of a previously unknown children's story by Mary Shelley is reminiscent of Henry James's The Aspern Papers, a novella inspired by the scramble for the aged Claire Clairmont's last relics of P B Shelley.
Claire Tomalin outlines the story brilliantly, setting Mary Shelley's ...
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