Re: Mary Shelley Bibliography

[Charles Robinson <robinson@UDel.Edu>]

The best thing to use for all of Mary Shelley's works would be W. H. 
Lyles, _Mary Shelley: An Annotated Bibliography_ (Garland, 1975). It
covers both primary and secondary works--it will not give full
descriptions of gatherings and signatures, but it will provide a start. 
Various editions of _Frankenstein_ will offer bibliographies of the
various editions--e.g., the 1818, the 1823, and the 1831, but none remarks
on the possibility of a re-issue of the 1823 in 1826.  Remarks on these
editions (with notes on some of the differences) will be in my forthcoming
"diplomatic" edition of the 1816-17 Frankenstein, that is, an edition of
the unpublished manuscripts entitled _The Frankenstein Notebooks: A
Facsimile Edition_.  This edition will contain about 400 pages of
photofacsimiles plus 400 transcription pages, each of which will provide a
de facto collation of the manuscript and the 1818 text.  This edition will
be published by Garland in the late summer [or as soon as I finish the
last parts of my Introduction: this Introduction, by the way, will give a
_Frankenstein_ Chronology by which you can reconstruct just when MWS wrote
which chapters of her manuscript novel, a novel that was drafted in 2
volumes, not 3, and the 2d volume dramatically began with the monster's
narrative]. 

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