1st Edition

The Clairmont Family Letters, 1839 - 1889 Volume I

By Sharon Joffe Copyright 2017
404 Pages
by Routledge

404 Pages
by Routledge

This book is the first of two volumes in an edited collection that brings together the unpublished letters of the extended Clairmont family, for the first time. The letters, housed in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle at the New York Public Library, inform our understanding of the Shelley-Godwin circle through the experiences and thoughts of their descendants. The... Read more

Acknowledgments

Editorial Standards and Practices

List of Illustrations

Editorial Symbols

Introduction

List of Letters

List of Abbreviations

Letters from 12 December 1839 – 10 April 1853

The Australian Sojourn

Letters from 8 July 1853 - 10 December 1860

Biography

Sharon Lynne Joffe was born in South Africa but has lived in the United States since 1985. She has a Master of Science degree in Education from the University of Pennsylvania, and MA and PhD degrees in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sharon is an Adjunct Associate Professor at North Carolina State University. Her major area of teaching specialization is in nineteenth-century British literature. Sharon has also extended her research interests to include the field of Digital Humanities.