{"title":"Mary Shelley","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"shelleys-ghost","title":"Shelley's Ghost","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFew families enjoy such a remarkable reputation for their contribution to the literature and intellectual life of Britain as the Godwins and the Shelleys. Yet this reputation was shaped in a subtle way by the selective release of literary manuscripts into the public realm and the suppression of others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book explores the lives and posthumous reputations of Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife Mary Shelley, and Mary's parents, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. It tells the story of how Mary Shelley, haunted by the past, directly sought to enhance the public's appreciation of her husband and parents by the selective publication of relevant manuscripts. It also explains how she passed on this legacy to her son, Sir Percy Florence Shelley and his wife, Jane, Lady Shelley. 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Reproducing many of the archive documents and Shelley relics, this highly illustrated book accompanies an exhibition at the Bodleian Library, Dove Cottage, Grasmere and the New York Public Library.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Hebron\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has published widely in the field of British romanticism, and curated a series of exhibitions at the Wordsworht Trust in Cumbria, England. His previous publications include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Keats: A Poet and His Manuscripts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (The British Library, 2009). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth C. Denlinger\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Curator of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and his circle at New York Public Library. 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