Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction 1
6. The Politics of Autobiography in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley 19
7. The Personal Pronoun as Political: Stylistics of Self-Reference in the Vindications 31
8. The Power of the Unnamed You in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark 43
9. Reveries of Reality: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Poetics of Sensibility 55
10. “The History of My Own Heart”: Inscribing Self, Inscribing Desire in Wollstonecraft’s Letters from Norway 69
11. (Un)Confinements: The Madness of Motherhood in Mary Wollstonecraft’s The Wrongs of Woman 85
12. Mary Wollstonecraft and Harriet Jacobs: Self Possessions 99
13. Memoirs Discourse and William Godwin’s Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 113
14. A Mother’s Daughter: An Intersection of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 127
15. Mary Shelley: Writing/Other Women in Godwin’s “Life” 139
16. “Unconceiving Marble”: Anatomy and Animation in Frankenstein and The Last Man 159
17. Further Thoughts on the Education of Daughters: Lodore as an Imagined Conversation with Mary Wollstonecraft 177
18. Speaking the Unspeakable: Art Criticism as Life Writing in Mary Shelley’s Rambles in Germany and Italy 189
19. Biographical Imaginings and Mary Shelley’s (Extant and Missing) Correspondence 217
20. Reflections on Writing Mary Shelley’s Life 233
21. Caves of Fancy 243
22. Works Cited 295
23. Contributors 313
24. Index 317