How Do You Read Shelley?

By: Tanessa Crockett

                        Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
—Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)

Welcome! Let me first introduce this site by admitting its flaws. This site was supposed to prove to the viewer that Mary Shelley's novella Mathilda can and should be read  autobiographically. However, literature led me down a different path. My research ended up proving my thesis wrong. So, I now invite you to surf your way through this site, enjoy cruising through history and take this opportunity to get to know the Shelley family. But, while you are perusing think to yourself- How Do I read Shelley? Allow literature to carry you away and find out where you end up.

        To learn more about the path my research and  literature took me click on the link below.

                                                                                       So, How do you read Mathilda?

                       Biographical Info:                                     Mary Shelley the Gothic                     What was Mary Shelley reading?

                                                                                             Romantic Chronology                                   

• Works Cited and Annotated Bibiography

Last Updated: 28 July 2004