Mathilda by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Fiction Classics

<p><strong>The three main characters in Mathilda are clearly Mary Shelley herself Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley -- </strong>and their relations can easily be reassorted to correspond with their lives. Mathilda is the second long work of fiction of Mary Shelley written between August 1819 and February 1820.</p><p>The act of writing this novella distracted Mary Shelley from her grief after the deaths of her one-year-old daughter Clara at Venice in September 1818 and her three-year-old son William in June 1819 in Rome. These losses plunged Mary Shelley into a depression that distanced her emotionally and sexually from Percy Shelley and he left her as he put it on the hearth of pale despair. An important and little-known tale from the author of Frankenstein.</p>