Perdita’s Cottage: Mary Robinson in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s The Last Man

Vlary Wollstonecraft Shelley's (1797-1851) The Last Man (1826) is generally viewed by scholars as an autobiographical novel which functions as a :oman-a-clef in representing portrayals of herself, her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), step-sister Claire Clairmont (1798-1879), and :riend...

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Published in:Notes and queries 2017-03, Vol.64 (1), p.gjw270
Main Author: YOUNG, J. E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Byron, George Gordon (Lord) (1788-1824)
Keats, John (1795-1821)
Literary criticism
Shelley, Howard
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851)
Writers
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Summary:Vlary Wollstonecraft Shelley's (1797-1851) The Last Man (1826) is generally viewed by scholars as an autobiographical novel which functions as a :oman-a-clef in representing portrayals of herself, her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), step-sister Claire Clairmont (1798-1879), and :riend Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) through the novel's rharacters.1 To date, scholarly attention has concentrated on the fictional reworking of Percy Shelley and Lord Byron into Mary Shelley's heroes, Raymond and Adrian and the protagonist Lionel Verney; the trio of female :haracters, Perdita, Idris, and Evadne, are commonly assumed to be literary versions of Mary Shelley and her step-sister.
ISSN:0029-3970
1471-6941
DOI:10.1093/notesj/gjw270