SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851). Autograph letter signed ('M.S.') to the publisher Charles Ollier, n.p., n.d. ('Saturday'), [November 1831]. One page, 180 x 111mm, on a bifolium with integral address. Asking for copies of Frankenstein and a novel by James Fenimore Cooper which she is to review . 'You will think it very troublesome and ridiculous, but I want the "Bravo" again. The truth is (but that is a secret) I am going to review it -- & as I shall do so favorably -- pray don't grudge it, but send it by the bearer -- with L.E.L.'s book if it is out -- and the copies of Frankenstein -- Did you send the others as I mentioned to Mrs Paul &c? November is come...' Mary Shelley's review of James Fenimore Cooper's The Bravo appeared in the Westminster Review 16 (1832). 'L.E.L.' is Letitia Elizabeth Landon, whose first novel, Romance and Reality was published in 1831. The copies of Frankenstein Shelley requests are of the heavily-revised third edition, published in one volume by Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley on 31 October 1831. 'Mrs Paul' is Shelley's close friend Georgina Paul, who in November 1831 was in the process of a painful separation from her husband and child after the discovery of an affair. The recipient, Charles Ollier, was the chief publisher of Mary's husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley as well as of Keats's Poems , 1817. At this time he was the literary advisor to Richard Bentley
SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851). Autograph letter signed ('M.S.') to the publisher Charles Ollier, n.p., n.d. ('Saturday'), [November 1831]. One page, 180 x 111mm, on a bifolium with integral address. Asking for copies of Frankenstein and a novel by James Fenimore Cooper which she is to review . 'You will think it very troublesome and ridiculous, but I want the "Bravo" again. The truth is (but that is a secret) I am going to review it -- & as I shall do so favorably -- pray don't grudge it, but send it by the bearer -- with L.E.L.'s book if it is out -- and the copies of Frankenstein -- Did you send the others as I mentioned to Mrs Paul &c? November is come...' Mary Shelley's review of James Fenimore Cooper's The Bravo appeared in the Westminster Review 16 (1832). 'L.E.L.' is Letitia Elizabeth Landon, whose first novel, Romance and Reality was published in 1831. The copies of Frankenstein Shelley requests are of the heavily-revised third edition, published in one volume by Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley on 31 October 1831. 'Mrs Paul' is Shelley's close friend Georgina Paul, who in November 1831 was in the process of a painful separation from her husband and child after the discovery of an affair. The recipient, Charles Ollier, was the chief publisher of Mary's husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley as well as of Keats's Poems , 1817. At this time he was the literary advisor to Richard Bentley
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