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"Maurice", or "the Fisher's Cot": A Tale


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No. of pages 192

Published: 2000

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In November 1997, a slight book sewn together with string was discovered in a palazzo in Italy. This was Maurice, the only children's story ever penned by Mary Shelley. Written two years after Frankenstein, Maurice is often read as a gloss of Shelley's personal family tragedies, bearing the same melancholy that distinguishes all of her works. As Claire Tomalin shows in her compelling introduction, it contributes greatly to the literary and biographical scholarship on this fascinating woman who was a significant writer in her own right as well as the wife of one of the world's greatest romantic poets.

 

There are 192 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by The University of Chicago Press .

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851) was an English writer, best known for her novel "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus". Mary Shelley (1797-1851), best known as the author of Frankenstein , was the daughter of Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft and wife of Percy Bysse Shelley. Claire Tomalin is the author of a number of prizewinning biographies, most recently of Jane Austen: A Life .

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