History of a Six Weeks' Tour

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) is a luminary of the literary world, renowned primarily for her groundbreaking gothic novel, 'Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus' (1818). The daughter of political philosopher William Godwin and feminist advocate Mary Wollstonecraft, she was steeped in intellectual radicalism from a young age. Shelley's writing career extended beyond her magnum opus, in...