Mathilda
Mathilda Mathilda (1959) is a posthumous novella by English writer and Romantic Mary Shelley. Unpublished for over a century, its posthumous appearance helped cement Shelley's reputation as a leading…
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Mathilda
Mathilda (1959) is a posthumous novella by English writer and Romantic Mary Shelley. Unpublished for over a century, its posthumous appearance helped cement Shelley's reputation as a leading Romantic, an artist unafraid of confronting such themes and taboos as incest and suicide in her work.Mathilda, named after its narrator, traces a young woman's troubled life from birth to her premature deathbed. Written as a means of self-distraction following the deaths of her young children in Italy, Mathilda is a work haunted by tragic loss.
A gifted reader and promising intellectual, she rises from her difficult circumstances to lead a relatively happy childhood. Following her mother's death during childbirth and her father's subsequent abandonment, Mathilda is raised by her aunt in rural Loch Lomond, Scotland. When, at the age of 16, her father reenters her life,