"You never regarded me as one of this world, but rather as a being, who for some penance was sent from the Kingdom of Shadows; and she passed a few days weeping on the earth and longing to return to her native soil."

This web page is dedicated
to Mary Shelley's Matilda,
a short novel written in 1819.

Mary Shelley's novella
about father/daughter incest
was not published until 1959.

 

 

Writing Matilda

Writing About Matilda

Context of Composition and Cycle of Circulation

Journals and Letters

History of Criticism

 

 

This site was last updated on Monday, August 07, 2000.

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