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Article: Betty T. Bennett and Charles E. Robinson, editors, The Mary Shelley Reader.(Book review)
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- Nineteenth-Century Prose
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- December 22, 1991
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Betty T. Bennett and Charles E. Robinson, editors, The Mary Shelley Reader (Oxford UP, 1990), 420 pp., $39.95 cloth, $14.95 paper.
"It has struck me," Mary Shelley wrote in her journal on December 2, 1834, "what a very imperfect picture (only no one will see it) these querulous pages afford of me. This arises from their being the record of my feelings, and not of my imagination ... my imagination, my Kubla Khan, 'my pleasure dome' occasionally pushed aside by misery but at the first opportunity her beaming face peeped in and the weight of deadly woe was lightened." Shelley was 37, old for one of the second generation of English Romantics. A year earlier, in "The ...