Mary Shelley Book

	Illustrations	ix
	Preface	xi
I	A Motherless Child
1	The Age of Prometheus 1789-1800	3
2	A Birth and a Death 1797-1798	21
3	Father and Daughter 1798-1801	35
4	A Shared Life 1801-1807	45
5	Tensions 1807-1812	57
6	A Glassite Household 1812-1814	73
7	Love and Confusion 1814	87
II	Freedom
8	Six Weeks in Europe 1814	103
9	Experiments in Living 1814-1815	114
10	Retreat from London 1815-1816	134
11	Storms on the Lake 1816	146
12	Distressing Events 1816	165
13	At Albion House 1817-1818	179
III	Italy
14	Joys and Losses 1818	203
15	A Mysterious History 1818-1819	217
16	A Loss and a Gain 1819-1820	232
17	In Absentia Clariae 1820	246
18	Life on the Lung'Arno 1821	259
19	Don Juan among the Ladies 1821-1822	278
20	At the Villa Magni May--August 1822	293
IV	A Woman of Ill Repute
21	Bitter Waters 1822-1823	311
22	Fame, of a Kind 1823-1824	329
23	Literary Matters 1824-1829	348
24	Private Matters 1824-1827	366
25	A Curious Marriage 1827-1828	378
26	The Hideous Progeny 1828-1831	390
27	Entering Society 1830-1834	409
28	Relinquishing Pleasure 1833-1836	427
V	Keeper of the Shrine
29	Problems of Reputation 1836-1838	443
30	Reparation and Renewal 1838-1840	464
31	Continental Rambles 1840-1844	475
32	Enter, the Italians 1843-1844	487
33	Blackmail and Forgery 1844-1846	497
34	Anxious Times 1845-1848	513
35	The Chosen One 1848-1851	527
36	Afterlife	540
	Appendices
1	An Account of the Burial of Shelley's Heart	562
2	Some Unpublished Letters	563
3	Portraits of Mary Shelley	567
	Notes	571
	Bibliography	615
	Acknowledgements	619
	Index	621