Publishing tales such as "Ferdinand Eboli" and "A Tale of Passion" in the annual gift-giving book The Keepsake kept the creditors at bay long enough to allow for work on the dramas Proserpine and Midas.
Publishing tales such as "Ferdinand Eboli" and "A Tale of Passion" in the annual gift-giving book The Keepsake kept the creditors at bay long enough to allow for work on the dramas Proserpine and Midas. Primarily remembered for six novels, travel narratives including History of a Six Week's Tour and Rambles in Germany and Italy also sold well. Her main characters include Elizabeth Brady in Falkner, Lord Lodore who settles in Illinois with his daughter Ethel, and Lionel Verney, who is The Last Man on earth. But it is an 1818 work that begins with the letters of Robert Walton that is acknowledged as her masterpiece. FTP identify this author of the gothic romances Valperga and Frankenstein.
Publishing tales such as "Ferdinand Eboli" and "A Tale of Passion" in the annual gift-giving book The Keepsake kept the creditors at bay long enough to allow for work on the dramas Proserpine and Midas.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley