Much of Mary Shelley's life reads like a compilation of some of the most lurid and sensationalist novels of her time. After the stormy years of her relationship with Percy Shelley, Mary went on to raise her one surviving son on her own, never sure of the loyalty of friends, threatened and intimidated by her dead husband's father. John Williams offers a thoughtful assessment of her literary achievement, set against the background of the evolution of the English novel in the politically volatile years of the early nineteenth century.

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JOHN WILLIAMS has been a reader in Literary Studies in the School of Humanities at the University of Greenwich since 1993. His publications have included books on English poetry, Reading Poetry (1985) and Twentieth Century British Poetry (1987). In 1989 he published William Wordsworth: Romantic Poetry and Revolution Politics. He is currently editor of The Powys Journal.

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Note on Texts and Abbreviations Introduction Parents Early Years 1797-1814 The Author of Frankenstein 1814-1820 The Wife of Shelley 1822-1826 The Widow of Shelley 1822-1826 Writing to Live 1826-1834 Fiction and the Market Place: Lodore and Falkner 1834-1838 The Editor of Shelley 1838-1839 Ten Years Which Have Made Me Old Further Reading Index