Volume 46, Number 7 · April 22, 1999
Lost Tale of a Lost Child
By Richard Holmes
Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot
by Mary Shelley, edited with an introduction by Claire Tomalin
Knopf, 179 pp., $20.00
In November 1997 the British biographer Claire Tomalin received a fax from a small Italian town in the Apennine hills above Pistoia. It announced that a neat, handbound manuscript of a long-lost story by Mary Shelley had been unearthed in a family trunk belonging to descendants of the Shelleys' Tuscan friend Lady Mountcashell. It was dedicated to Lady Mountcashell's little daughter, Laurette, and had lain forgotten for over 170 years.
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