Mary / Maria / Matilda
- New York: New York University Press, 1992
New York: New York University Press, 1992. Very Good/Very Good. New York: New York University Press, [1992]. First Collected Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in white pictorial dust jacket; xxviii,[2],217pp. Light soil to dust jacket, spine very slightly cocked, corner nudged, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Forms part of NYU Press Women's Classics.
First collected edition of three short works of fiction by Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley. The last title in the volume, Mary Shelley's second novel "Matilda," was never published in her lifetime and remained suppressed from publication for a century after her death--its subject matter of a father's incestuous desire for his daughter was deemed too provocative.
First collected edition of three short works of fiction by Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley. The last title in the volume, Mary Shelley's second novel "Matilda," was never published in her lifetime and remained suppressed from publication for a century after her death--its subject matter of a father's incestuous desire for his daughter was deemed too provocative.