The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-44 (New ed)

This work provides, in a single volume, an account of Mary Shelley's life from her own pen.

It describes her sympathetic identification with nature and her struggles with - and ultimate surrender to - the depression that followed her husband's death.

The text is supplemented by extensive annotations, a chronology, maps of the Shelleys's travels, portraits of acquaintances, appendices giving biographical accounts of the members of Mary Shelley's social circles in Pisa and London, the Shelleys's reading lists and a biography.