Beyond the Shelley Circle: The Clairmont Family and Its Descendants [Hardcover]

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Editorial Standards and Practices

Abbreviations and Identification

Editorial Symbols

Genealogical Table: The WollstonecraftGodwinShelleyClairmont Circle

Chapter One: The Inner Circle:  The WollstonecraftGodwinShelleyClairmont Circle

Chapter Two: The Outer Circle: The Clairmont Family in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter Three: Ottilia Clairmonts Journal: The German Transcription

Chapter Four: Ottilia Clairmonts Journal: The English Translation

Chapter Five: Closing the Circle: Ottilia, Life Writing, and the Clairmont Family after Claire

Bibliography

Appendix A: Additional Documents

Appendix B: Excerpts from Ottilia Clairmonts Unpublished Journal (c. 18681908)

Appendix C: Walter Clairmonts Letter to His Father, Wilhelm Clairmont

Sharon L. Joffe has a Master of Science degree in Education from the University of Pennsylvania, and MA and PhD degrees in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Joffe is an Associate Professor of English at Lamar University.

Beyond the Shelley Circle: The Clairmont Family and Its Descendants will interest Shelley-circle researchers, life-writing scholars, and nineteenth-century historians alike. The Clairmont familys connection to Mary Shelley began in 1801, when ls!