Narcissus and Cain
David Bromwich, 6 August 1992
Mary and Maria by Mary Wollstonecraft, Matilda by Mary Shelley
edited by Janet Todd.
Pickering & Chatto, 217 pp., £24.95, January 1992,1 85196 023 6 Show More
edited by Janet Todd.
Pickering & Chatto, 217 pp., £24.95, January 1992,
Lady Sophia Sternheim
by Sophie von La Roche, edited by James Lynn.
Pickering & Chatto, 216 pp., £24.95, January 1992,9781851960217 Show More
by Sophie von La Roche, edited by James Lynn.
Pickering & Chatto, 216 pp., £24.95, January 1992,
“... The suicides of Harriet Shelley and Fanny Imlay, the deaths of Mary’s children Clare in 1818 and William in 1819, coming so close together must have had for her the weight of a curse. This story of 1820 seems to say that in a family where only forbidden affections can thrive it is better that all life cease. Read alongside Frankenstein, it also confirms Jay ... ”