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Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle
 
 
Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle (Hardcover)
by Janet Todd (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Profile (28 Jun 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 186197955X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1861979551
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.8 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 283,975 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Set against the background of a Europe recovering from the Napoleonic Wars, Janet Todd brings to life the terrible and tragic story - the Shelley circle. 1816 was the fateful year when the quintessential Romantic poets Byron and Shelley shared a hectic creative and sexual menage in Switzerland. It spawned some of the greatest poetry in the English language, and Frankenstein too, but it also led directly to the tragic suicide of two young women and destroyed the life of at least two others. The misery of the women and children who loved or came close to Shelley is largely unacknowledged because he is remembered himself as a martyr to art who died an early death. His fantasies of utopian communities of free love - as so often - may have been fun for the men but destroyed the woman involved. In 1816, he ran away from his first wife, Harriet, to live with Mary Imlay-Wollstonecraft, and her half-sister. But he also abandoned the third tragic half-sister Fanny, neglected in every previous book about the Wollstonecraft-Godwin-Shelley-Byron circle and brought to life again for the first time here. Fanny is the most heartbreaking and ignored victim in English literature.

Janet Todd finally gives her some recompense.


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