Writing to a friend as she nears death, Mathilda tells the story of her solitary childhood in Scotland, her joyful reunion with the father who abandoned her as a baby, and the terrible secret he finally confesses. Withdrawn into the wild heath country, she later finds a friend in the grieving young poet Woodville. This edition, first printed in 1959 from Shelley’s notebooks, adds the opening of her draft The Fields of Fancy.
A dark, personal novella written in 1819 and suppressed for well over a century, essential for readers of Frankenstein. Download the free EPUB.