Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other Writings

Nora Crook is at Anglia Polytechnic University, she is also the General Editor of Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley. Clarissa Campbell Orr is at Anglia Polytechnic University. Pamela Clemit is at the University of Durham. Tilar Mazzeo is at the University of Wisconsin Arnold Markley is at Penn State University. Lisa Vargo is at the University of Saskatchewan .

'an admirable achievement by all involved and a wonderful opportunity for readers and scholars who are for the first time able to gain access to Shelley's obscurer texts' The Byron Journal

• Volume 1 Italian Lives: Lives of Petrach, Boccaccio, Lorenzo di Medici, Marsiglio Ficino, Giovanni Pico dell Mirandola, Angelo Poliziano, Bernardo Pulci, Luca Pulci, Luigi Pulci, Cieco de Ferrara, Burchiello, Matteo Maria Bojardo, Francesco Berni, Machiavelli, Guiccardini, Vittoria Colonna, Giovanni Battista Guarini, Gabriello Chiabrera, Alessandro Tassoni, Giambattista Marini, Vincenzo de Filicaja, Pietro Metastasio, Carlo Goldoni, Vittorio Alfieri, Vincenzo Monti, Ugo Foscolo Volume 2 Spanish and Portuguese lives: Survey of early Hispanic literature, Juan Boscan, Garcilaso de la Vega, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Luis Ponce de Leon, Fernando de Herrera, Jorge de Montemayor, Cristobal de Castillejo, Cervantes, Alonzo de Ericilla [not by Mary Shelley], Lope de Vega, Vincente Espinel, Esteban de Villegas, Luis de Gongora, Franciso Gomez de Quevedo, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Bernardim Ribeyro, Gil Vincente, Francisco de Sa de Miranda, Antonio Ferreira, Luiz Vaz de Camoens; French Lives: Montaigne, Rabelais [not by Mary Shelley], Corneille, La Rochefoucauld Volume 3 French Lives: Moliere, Boileau, Racine, La Fontaine [not by Mary Shelley], Pascal, Madame de Sevigne, Fenelon, Voltaire, Rousseau, Condorcet, Mirabeau, Madame Roland, Madame de Stael Volume 4 Memoirs: 'Life of William Godwin' (1836-c.1840); Non-dramatic poetry: 'The Choice' (1823); 'On Reading Wordsworth's Lines on Peel Castle' (1825); 'To Jane with the Last Man' (1826); 'Absence' (1830); 'A Dirge' (1830); 'The Death of Love' (1831); 'A Night Scene' (1831); 'To love in solitude' (1832); 'Stanzas' (1832); 'La Vida es sueno' (1833-4); 'Fair Italy! Still shines thy sun as bright' (1833); 'Tempo e ben di morire' (1833) 'O listen while I sing to thee' (1838); 'O come to me in dreams' (1838); 'How like a Star you rose upon my Life' (1838); Uncollected Fiction: 'Maurice' (1820); 'Lacy de Vere' (1827); 'Cecil' (c1845) [newly identified as a translation]; Uncollected Non-fiction: 'Theseus' fragment; 'Cyrus' fragment (c1815); 'Book of Samuel' fragment (?1819-20); 'Necessity of a Belief in the Heathen Mythology' (c1820); 'Life of Shelley' (1823); 'Modern Italian Romances' (1838); Translations: 'Cupid and Psyche' (1817), 'Relation of the Death of the Family of the Cenci' (1819); Two chapters, of translation of Laura Tighe Galloni's novel 'Inez de Medina' (?1848-50); Part-Authored and Attributed Writings