About the Author

Betty T. Bennett is Distinguished Professor of Literature at American University, Washington, D.C. Her books include Mary Diana Dods, a Gentleman and a Scholar; Selected Letters of Mary Shelley; and, in three volumes, The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; all available from Johns Hopkins.

Reviews

Mary Shelley fully deserves to be remembered and celebrated for her extraordinary talent and equally important life. Her parentage, her marriage, the circumstances of her widowhood all compel the imagination. Times Literary Supplement