Lives of the Great Romantics, Part III, Volume 3

This volume sheds light on contemporary perception of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, a biographically and intellectually compelling literary family of the Romantic period. The writings reveal the personalities of the subjects, and the motives and agendas of the biographers.

Betty T. Bennett,

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Chronology -- Copy Texts -- 1. Scott, Walter, 'Review of Frankenstein in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- 2. Medwin, Thomas, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron -- 3. Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 'Review of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus' in The Athenaeum -- 4. Clairmont, Claire, 'Letter to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley' -- 5. Allsop, Thomas (ed.), Letters, Conversations and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge -- 6. 'M', 'Review of Falkner' in Monthly Repository -- 7. Burr, Aaron, The Private Journal of Aaron Burr -- 8. Anonymous, 'Review of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley' and 'Essays; Letters from Abroad, translations and Fragments by Percy Bysshe Shelley' in The Athenaeum -- 9. Horne, Richard, A New Spirit of the Age -- 10. Medwin, Thomas, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley -- 11. Medwin, Thomas, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley, A New Edition -- 12. Gilfillan, George, 'Female Authors, no. 3, Mrs. Shelley' in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine -- 13. Redding, Cyrus, Fifty Years' Recollections -- 14. Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley -- 15. Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 'Letter to Thomas Jefferson Hogg' -- 16. Trelawny, Edward, Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron -- 17. Shelley, Lady [Jane] (ed.), Shelley Memorials -- 18. Rennie, Eliza, Traits of Character -- 19. Merimee, Prosper, 'Letter to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley' -- 20. Hunt, Thornton, 'Shelley By One Who Knew Him' in The Vi LIVES OF THE GREAT ROMANTICS III: SHELLEY Atlantic Monthly -- 21. Owen, Robert Dale, Threading My Way -- 22. Clarke, Charles & Mary Cowden, Recollections of Writers -- 23. Sumner, Charles, Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner -- 24. Perkins, Jane Gray, The Life of Mrs. Norton -- 25. Polidori, John William, The Diary of Dr. John Polidori -- 26. Jewsbury, Maria Jane, 'Letter to Anna Jameson' -- 27. Godwin, William, 'Letter to William Baxter' -- 28. Haden, A. C., 'Mary Shelley: A Local Reminiscence' in Dundee Advertiser -- Editorial Notes -- Index.