Mathilda Mary Shelley Books
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Mathilda By Mary Shelley
Mathilda Mary Shelley Books
* * This review refers to the free Kindle ebook version.In 1959 Elizabeth Nitchie took the time to study, research, and put together the many factors that make up the story of Mathilda. This Kindle ebook is one of the best annotated free titles I've come across. Ms. Nitchie explains the history of this novelette, why the misspellings are left in, it's journey of being chopped into pieces and sent off in many directions, and gives the reader information on the author's struggles regarding its publication.
It is believed to have been written in 1819, but was never published during Mary Shelley's lifetime. The story was written after the death of her two young children - first Clara, who was around one year old, then her son William.
Scholars feel this short story is autobiographical in nature and was written to help Ms. Shelley deal with the deaths and also the pain and estrangement it caused in her marriage. Mathilda is Mary, Mathilda's father is Godwin, and the character Woodville is Mary Shelley's husband.
Did Mary Shelley experience incest in her life? Nitchie gives her theory as to why this theme is an element in Mathilda.
If you decide to pick up this ebook, please take the time to read the opening and introduction by Elizabeth Nitchie. It is thorough (the first 8% of the ebook) and well done. I enjoyed the short ebook so much more because of this background information.
Readers also need to know - this story is a draft. It was never officially published. It's full of typos and rambling sentences. Shelley is extremely wordy and dramatic.
All in all 'Mathilda' is an interesting glimpse into a work-in-progress by a well known author.
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Mathilda Mary Shelley Books Reviews
Gothic novels are always depressing, but this one beats them all. Mathilda's mother dies after her birth, and her father runs away, unable to look at the child who caused her death. She is raised by an unaffectionate aunt, but creates a pleasing fantasy world for herself. When her father returns for her sixteenth birthday, she is swept away to a delightful life with him, but only for a short while. It all comes tumbling down with an estrangement that plunges her into despair that will be her ultimate undoing. The writing is beautiful, but her despair is intractable, and suffocates the reader. She wallows in it, resists any attempts to lift her up, eagerly desires and romanticizes death. And death comes. Much of this story is semi-autobiographical I know Shelley's mother died soon after her birth, and her father became her primary caretaker. She had an intense ambivalent relationship with her father, and she suffered much from depression., and a difficult life.
This autobiographical novel is best viewed as Shelley telling her own tale via a doppelganger. A good, solid book but without the genius of Frankenstein.
In all fairness I read her other things and it is no doubt the style of her time to never reach the point.
The description says this ebook was"professionally proof read" to ensure accuracy, etc.
I don't know who these "professionals" are but they must have just a first grade education.
I have been a reader for over 50 years. I have read many, many books, classics, non-fiction, fiction and personally I am made sick to death of reading these messy, sloppy ebooks, full of misspelling, grammatical errors..well, anything one could do wrong in writing you will find in this book and very many other ebooks from . It ruins the whole reading experience.
The story was as I would have expected it to be, considering who wrote it and when it was written. There are a lot of tears shed and the scene of sexual impropriety on the part of Mathilda's father is brief and couched in language that never states what actually happened. One did not talk about such things in the 1800s. I happen to enjoy stories written in the 1700s and 1800s when there was little opportunity for individual entertainment at home other that reading. Stories written then do tend to ramble a bit and their vocabulary can include words not necessarily familiar to readers today.
The book also had the beginning of "The Field of Fancy" begun and then abandoned by Mary. I think I'm glad she did that.
Gloom, despair, and agony on me
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all
Gloom, despair, and agony on me.
GLOOM, DESPAIR AND AGONY ON ME
From the TV Show "Hee-Haw" (1969 -1992)
Buck Owens & Roy Clark
Also Gothic Romantic Melodrama in all bold and heavy Gothic font. Tears, lonely, sad and heartbroken, eye sodden and check streaking. Also death and sickness. Not a lot of wasting away but the title story is short, so no time to actually cough up a lung.
Mary Shelly’s (The Frankenstein lady) Mathilda is the deathbed confession of a lady born to wealth and privilege, also a dead mother and grief stricken missing father, and is raised by magical dwarfs. No sorry an un-loving Aunt, who dies. And then she gets reunited with her loving father and then things really go bad for her. Hardly any better for him. Worse actually.
So then our heroine picks herself up, washes herself off and starts all over again. Umm nope. She mopes and cries some more. Mathilda is certainly single minded, not given to causes or others but firmly fixated on her pitiful self. That she is entirely innocent of anything is less important than being a self-obsessed drama queen. To her credit she does miss her daddy. Her late daddy.
There seems to be some notion that Mathilda is at least semi-autobiographical, although whether related to the passing of her children or her particular daddy issues (Her mother also died) is under discussion. Most importantly it was never published in Mary’s life time, or century. May we indulge in the conjecture that Ms. Shelly was being smarter than much later heirs to her papers?
A second much shorter and perhaps incomplete story, The Fields of Fancy is included. It retains the heavy hand of Gothic Romance, but hedges toward the up lifting.
* * This review refers to the free ebook version.
In 1959 Elizabeth Nitchie took the time to study, research, and put together the many factors that make up the story of Mathilda. This ebook is one of the best annotated free titles I've come across. Ms. Nitchie explains the history of this novelette, why the misspellings are left in, it's journey of being chopped into pieces and sent off in many directions, and gives the reader information on the author's struggles regarding its publication.
It is believed to have been written in 1819, but was never published during Mary Shelley's lifetime. The story was written after the death of her two young children - first Clara, who was around one year old, then her son William.
Scholars feel this short story is autobiographical in nature and was written to help Ms. Shelley deal with the deaths and also the pain and estrangement it caused in her marriage. Mathilda is Mary, Mathilda's father is Godwin, and the character Woodville is Mary Shelley's husband.
Did Mary Shelley experience incest in her life? Nitchie gives her theory as to why this theme is an element in Mathilda.
If you decide to pick up this ebook, please take the time to read the opening and introduction by Elizabeth Nitchie. It is thorough (the first 8% of the ebook) and well done. I enjoyed the short ebook so much more because of this background information.
Readers also need to know - this story is a draft. It was never officially published. It's full of typos and rambling sentences. Shelley is extremely wordy and dramatic.
All in all 'Mathilda' is an interesting glimpse into a work-in-progress by a well known author.
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