The Last Man and The Journal of Sorrow - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley began writing her 'Journal of Sorrow' (c.1822—6)three months after the devastating loss of her husband the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to drowning. In the privacy of the diary's pages, she grapples with her overwhelming grief over the tragic losses of her young husband, three of their children, and their friend the poet Lord Byron. Shelley ultimately resisted a suicidal depression by throwing herself intowriting the allegorical plague novel and roman-à -clef, The Last... Zobrazit více