The Washington Post, August 28th, 1988
THE LETTERS OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Volume III "What Years I Have Spent!" Edited by Betty T. Bennett The Johns Hopkins University Press 473 pp. $37.50 BY THE TIME this third volume of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's letters opens in 1840, both Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron are long dead. Mary Shelley, who will die 11 years later at the age of 53, is living in England, poor and worrying about the cost of firewood. Another survivor from the Geneva days is Claire Claremont, Mary Shelley's stepsister, mother of Byron's illegitimate daughter, Allegra. Many of these letters are from one w...
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