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A GUIDE TO THE

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL

IN THE PFORZHEIMER COLLECTION.

COMPILED BY

CLARE O. NEEDHAM

and

CHARLES CUYKENDALL CARTER,

Bibliographer of the Pforzheimer Collection.

The New York Public Library

THE CARL H. PFORZHEIMER COLLECTION OF SHELLEY AND HIS CIRCLE

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, rm. 319

Fifth Avenue at 42

nd

Street

New York, NY 10018-0802

pforzref@nypl.org ©2012 The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.

All rights reserved.

LAST UPDATE

D: 5 Jun 2012

Table of Contents

Biographical sketch........................................................................

Pforzheimer Collection and Shelley and his Circle......................................................................5

Holdings and

provenance ........................................................................ Related materials........................................................................ Scope and content........................................................................ Series I: Writings........................................................................ Series II: Correspondence........................................................................ Series III: Amanuensis work........................................................................ ....................................57

Series IV: Transcripts in Mary Shelley's hand........................................................................

.....58 Call number index........................................................................ .................................................... 60

Identification

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the English novelist. Best known as the author of

Frankenstein, she also

wrote short-stories, poetry, biographies, journal articles, reviews, and edited the works of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Associated NYPL catalog record

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley manuscript material

Size

413 items

Date range

1815-1850

Preferred citation The Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle - The New York Public Library - Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.

Access

Access is granted by Pforzheimer Collection staff. 2

Biographical sketch

The following sketch was first published in The Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: a

History, a Biography, and a Guide

, by Stephen Wagner and Doucet Devin Fischer (New York: The New

York Public Library, 1996)

In one of fortune's more ironic turnings, the most enduring and popular work of the British Romantic period was written not by Percy Bysshe Shelley (or Byron or Keats or Wordsworth or Coleridge, for that matter), but by an eighteen- year-old girl whose nightmare vision evolved into the archetypal parable of modern civilization - Frankenstein. The novel had its genesis one stormy night by the shores of Lake Geneva during the "wet, ungenial summer" of 1816, when Lord Byron challenged each of the guests at his villa to produce a ghost story. Stimulated by tales of the supernatural and discussions about the origins of life that formed the group's evening amusements, the future author of Frankenstein heard in a waking dream those famous words which the protagonist used to describe the unnatural birth of the creature who has yet to lose his hold on the popular imagination: It was on a dreary night in November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils .... It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

A year and a half later, when

this remarkable first novel was published anonymously in an edition of 500 copies, the two most successful authors of the day, Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott, had high praise for it. And when the story was adapted for the stage in

1823, it attained a popularity that it has never relinquished.

For a first-time novelist, Mary Godwin possessed imposing credentials. The offspring of a liaison between the anarchist philosopher William Godwin and the proto- feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft, by the age of eleven she had already collaborated on a children's book, issued under the Godwin's

Juvenile Library imprint. Raised on her

late mother's principles and her father's theories, she put them into effect at the age of sixteen by running away with Godwin's disciple, a young unknown poet names Percyquotesdbs_dbs2.pdfusesText_2