Rambles in Germany and Italy

The journal of Mary and Percy Shelley's 1814 elopement across France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland, plus their letters from Lake Geneva and Chamonix. It also includes the first printing of Percy's poem Mont Blanc.

Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Two short verse dramas based on Greek myth: the abduction of Proserpine by Pluto and the story of King Midas and his golden touch. Written in 1820 and printed for the first time a century later.

Mary Shelley

A short essay from 1824 in which Shelley asks why ghosts no longer appear to modern people and then tells the ghost stories she heard from friends. A quick read that shows her Gothic side outside fiction.

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley's biographies of French writers and thinkers like Montaigne, Rabelais, Molière, Voltaire, Rousseau and Madame de Staël, written for Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia. Both volumes come together in one file.

Mary Shelley