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"When Adeline Mowbray puts her mother Editha's radical theories into practice by eloping with, but not marrying, a notorious writer, the mother and daughter are estranged for many years, but finally reconciled. As its subtitle suggests, Adeline Mowbray, or The Mother and Daughter begins and ends with their story, but its complex plot encompasses almost every other human relationship. This engaging novel explores many issues important in the Romantic period, from women's education to the ethics of slavery and colonialism. This Broadview Edition uses the first edition of 1805 as its copy text, but also includes important variants from the 1810 and 1844 editions. The appendices include contemporary reviews and material expanding on the novel's themes of women's education, marriage, slavery, and the tension between feeling and reason."--Publisher's website.

Englisch. --- Mothers and daughters --- Mothers and daughters. --- Roman.

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Best remembered as the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man eight years later, on returning to England from Italy after her husband Percy's death. It is the twenty-first century, and England is a republic governed by a ruling elite, one of whom, Adrian, Earl of Windsor, has introduced a Cumbrian boy to the circle. This outsider, Lionel Verney, narrates the story, a tale of complicated, tragic love, and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague. The Last Man also functions as an intriguing roman-a-clef, for the saintly Adrian is a monument to Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his friend Lord Raymond is a portrait of Byron. The novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction against Romanticism, as Shelley demonstrates the failure of the imagination and of art to redeem her doomed characters. It is the twenty-first century, and England is a republic governed by a ruling elite, one of whom, Adrian, Earl of Windsor, has introduced a Cumbrian boy to the circle. This outsider, Lionel Verney, narrates, a tale of complicated, tragic love, and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague.--From publisher's description.

End of the world --- End of the world. --- Plague --- Plague. --- Twenty-first century --- Twenty-first century.

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Pioneers in life writing, Mary Wollstonecraft, author of 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1792), and Mary Shelley, author of 'Frankenstein '(1818 ), are now widely regarded as two of the leading writers of the Romantic period. They are both responsible for opening up new possibilities for women in genres traditionally dominated by men. This volume brings together essays on Wollstonecraft's and Shelley's life writing by some of the most prominent scholars in Canada, Australia, and the United States. It also includes a full-length play by award-winning Canadian playwright Rose Scollard. Together, the essays and the play explore the connections between mother and daughter, between writing and life, and between criticism and creation. They offer a new understanding of two important writers, of a literary period, and of emergent modes of life writing. Essayists include Judith Barbour, Betty T. Bennett, Anne K. Mellor, Charles E. Robinson, Eleanor Ty, and Lisa Vargo. Among the works discussed are Wollstonecraft’s 'Vindication', 'Letters from Norway', and 'Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman'; William Godwin's 'Memoirs of Wollstonecraft'; and Shelley's 'Frankenstein', 'The Last Man', 'Ladore', and 'Rambles in Germany and Italy'.

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, --- Wollstonecraft, Mary, --- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, --- Shelli, Mėri, --- Shelley, --- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, --- Shelley, Mary, --- Shelley, Maria, --- שלי, מרי, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- English literature --- Literature, Victorian --- Victorian literature --- Wollstonecraft, Mary --- Cresswick, --- Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft,