Volume 36, Number 11 · June 29, 1989
Romance Incarnate
By Robert Bernard Martin
Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality
by Emily W. Sunstein
Little, Brown, 478 pp., $24.95
The durable legend of the Shelley circle has proved so endearingly dotty, so engagingly pretentious, that those eight chiaroscuro years between 1814 and 1822 are something of a roadblock for a serious literary biographer. The case of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is particularly difficult, since most of her works have not worn so well as the story of her involvement with Shelley and Byron.
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