On Ghosts

Mary Shelley was taken seriously as a writer in her own lifetime, though reviewers often missed the political edge to her novels. After her death, however, she was chiefly remembered only as the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley and as the author of Frankenstein. It was not until 1989, when Emily Sunstein published her prizewinning biography Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality, that a full-length scholarly biography analyzing all of Shelley's letters, journals, and works within their historical context was published.my opinionI was interested to see how much Shelley thought the world of 1824 to be solved and without mystery (something I have thought in my lifetime) but still acknowledging there is much not known, so why not ghosts (again, I have wondered the same in the 21st century). The final tale, King of Cats, goes down as my favourite read of 2018 - what a timeless tale to show that the internet had not changed our humour in the slightest