Mathilda
Between 1819 and 1820, Mary Shelley wrote Matilda, her second novel following the classic Frankenstein. The story is reminiscent of Shelley's own life, if not outright autobiographical, with characters resembling herself, her husband Percy Shelley, and her father William Godwin. Matilda is an...
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Between 1819 and 1820, Mary Shelley wrote Matilda, her second novel following the classic Frankenstein. The story is reminiscent of Shelley's own life, if not outright autobiographical, with characters resembling herself, her husband Percy Shelley, and her father William Godwin. Matilda is an often overlooked literary gem written in the classic Romantic style with Matilda on her deathbed telling her tale full of loss, incest, and suicide.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781615890002 (1615890009)
Publish date: April 5th 2010
Publisher: Megalodon Entertainment LLC.
Pages no: 108
Edition language: English
I suppose I was expecting a lot more, since Frankenstein is one of my absolute favourite books.
Told in first person by Mathilda, a woman perhaps on her deathbed, this very short tale is possibly biographical for Mary Shelley. Mathilda's mother dies around childbirth, and her father's grief is too much so he fleas. She is raised by her aunt until she is 16 and she lives with her father. Sexual...
Book at bedtimeEmilia Fox reads the only other finished work of fiction by celebrated author Mary Shelley
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