The kinship coterie and the literary endeavors of the women in the Shelley circle
By: Sharon Lynne Joffe.
Series: Studies in nineteenth-century British literature -- v. 24
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780820495064
Subjects: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, -- 1797-1851 -- Family.; Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, -- 1797-1851 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Clairmont, Clara Mary Jane, -- 1798-1879 -- Correspondence.; Godwin, Fanny Imlay -- Correspondence.; Wollstonecraft, Mary, -- 1759-1797 -- Influence.; Motherhood in literature.; Mothers and daughters in literature.; English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Women authors, English -- 19th century -- Family relationships.; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Notes: Originally presented as author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: "Beyond the(ir) domestic" : the kinship coterie; value: "Without a mother's care" : Mary Wollstonecraft and the cult of motherhood; value: "Expressions in my mother's letters" : responses to maternity in Mary Shelley's early fiction; value: "Cruelty beyond compare" : maternal absence and deprivation in Mary Shelley's Lodore and Falkner; value: "My unhappy life" : the letters of Fanny Imlay; value: "In misery she spent her life" : Claire Clairmont and the kinship coterie; value: A coda to Claire Clairmont's participation in the kinship coterie; value: "I am constantly thinking of you as the person whom I admire and love beyond all other women" : Maria Gisborne as surrogate to Mary Shelley; value: Concluding the kinship coterie : the Brontës and their art.