Unknown letters of Mary Shelley found on the Internet

Found unknown message British writer Mary Shelley. About it tells The Guardian. About the discovery announced honorary doctor of Anglia Ruskin University, expert in romanticism Nora Kruk.

Kruk found 13 previously unknown letters Shelley accidentally. She came across them on the Internet, when he was engaged in development of creativity of the writer. It turns out that the list of messages, signed by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, posted on the website of archive of Essex. Full of words of messages in the Network no, but indicated the date of writing, destination, number of pages, some versions of these quotations. According to Dr. Kruk, she immediately realized that this correspondence has never been published. As long catalogue of letters Shelley was stored on the web site of the archives, not told.

Detected message dated to different periods: from 1831 until 1849. Last Shelley wrote already being seriously ill - writer died in 1851 from a malignant brain tumor. Letters Shelley addressed to a friend of her family to the stock broker Horace Smith and his daughter, Eliza. Some letters prints were red seal with individual print writer. According to the statement Kruk earlier researchers could not know about the existence of this printing.

In the Epistles Shelley tells about his visit to the coronation of Wilhelm IV in 1831, the teenage son named Percy, about the state of their own health. In addition Mary Shelley asks his friend's permission to publish the message of her husband, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to him, in which the poet negative comments about religion. Kruk reports that none of the detected messages writer mentions own book about Frankenstein, although in 1831, it was reprinted.

Mary Shelley, nee Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1797-1851), famous primarily as the Creator of the novel "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus" (1818). Among other things, she wrote works "Matilda", "the Last man" and "the Fate of Perkin Warbeck". The writer was married to the poet-romantic Percy Shelley, who died in 1822.

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