Mathilda, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Mathilda, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Mathilda, or Matilda, is the second long work of fiction of Mary Shelley, written between August 1819 and February 1820. It deals with common Romantic themes of incest and suicide. Narrating from her deathbed, Matilda tells the story of her unnamed father's confession of incestuous love for her, followed by his suicide by drowning; her relationship with a gifted young poet called Woodville fails to reverse Matilda's emotional withdrawal or prevent her lonely death. The act of writing this novella distracted Mary Shelley from her grief after the deaths of her one-year-old daughter Clara at Venice in September 1818 and her three-year-old son William in June 1819 in Rome. These losses plunged Mary Shelley into a depression that distanced her emotionally and sexually from Percy Shelley and left her, as he put it, "on the hearth of pale despair". The story may be seen as a metaphor for what happens when a woman, ignorant of all consequences, follows her own heart while dependent on her male benefactor.
Mathilda, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Published on: 2015-11-04
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .14" w x 6.00" l, .22 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 62 pages
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About the Author Mary Shelley (1797-1851), the only daughter of writers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, is the critically acclaimed author of Frankenstein, Valperga, and The Last Man, in addition to many other works. Mary Shelley s writings reflect and were influenced by a number of literary traditions including Gothic and Romantic ideals, and Frankenstein is widely regarded as the first modern work of science fiction. Today s scholarship of Mary Shelley s writings reveal her to be a political radical, as demonstrated though recurring themes of cooperation and sympathy, particularly among women, in her work, which are in direct conflict with the individual Romantic ideals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful. A mortal passion By Luc REYNAERT Mary Shelley's story has been suppressed for over a century, because it treats a taboo subject: incest.When Mathilda is being courted by a young man her father becomes violently jealous. He can't control his overwhelming passion -'My daughter,I love you' - and flees.From being her God, her father becomes Matilda's nightmare: 'infamy and guilt was mingled with my portion; unlawful and detestable passion has poured its poison into my ears and changed all my blood (in) a cold fountain of bitterness.'The lovers are doomed for the attraction is stronger than life: 'I am in love with death; no maiden ever took more pleasure in the contemplation of her bridal attirement than I in fancying my limbs already enwrapped in their shroud: is it not my married dress? Alone it will unite me to my father when in an eternal union we shall never part.'Although sometimes too sentimental, 'Matilda' is a strong psychological portrait, brilliantly written by an intelligent and very well read author: 'more lovely than a sunbeam, slighter, quicker than the waving plumage of a bird, dazzling as lightning and like it giving day to night,yet mild and faint, that smile came.'The story treats an important human conflict, partly resolved by evolution (C. Lumsden, E.O.Wilson - Promethean Fire).Highly recommended.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. A Draft - The Introduction of this eBook is a Must-Read By JAScribbles * * 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.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Mary's Two Stories By Dead British Authors 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.
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