Mary  Shelley's Gothic Readings

This page is under development. It reproduces data from Jack Lynch's "Mary Shelley's Reading" page, which draws upon (as this site does for Percy's gothic readings) The Journals of Mary Shelley: 1814-1844, ed. Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987). As of this stage, the record of Mary Shelley’s Gothic readings proceeds chronologically by the date of the published work; eventually Mary’s comments (when available) on the works that she read will also be included. As Lynch explains, “where an X occurs in the box designated for Shelley's reading, it means that we are certain that he read the text, but are not sure that Mary did as well. In such a household, however, it is unwise to surmise that many books under perusal went undiscussed by the two.”

Mary	Shelley	Author	Title	Date
1815		Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, [Richard Graves]	Die Leiden der jungen Werthers, [The Sorrows of Werter]	1774, [1779]
1815	x	Beckford, William	Vathek	1787 for 1786
1818		Smith, Charlotte	Emmeline, or the Orphan of the Castle	1788
1816		Schiller, Johann Friedrich von, [W. Render]	Der Geisterseher, [The Armenian; or, the Ghost-Seer]	1789, [1800]
1816		Robinson, Mary	Vancenza; or the Dangers of Credulity	1792
1814, 1816, 1820, 1821	x (1814, 1816)	Godwin, William	Things as they are; or, the Adventures of Caleb Williams	1794
1796	x	Lewis, Matthew Gregory	The Monk: a romance	1796
1821		Lee, Harriet and Sophia	Canterbury Tales ('Kruitzner, or the German's Tale')	1797-1801
1814	x	Radcliffe, Ann	The Italian	1797
1815		Brown, Charles Brockden	Wieland; or, the transformation	1798
1814, 1821	x	Coleridge, Samuel Taylor	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	1798
1817		Brown, Charles Brockden	Arthur Mervyn	1799
1814	x	Brown, Charles Brockden	Edgar Huntley; or, the Sleep-walker	1799
1815		Brown, Charles Brockden	Ormond; or, the Secret Witness	1799
1814, 1815, 1817	x (1815)	Godwin, William	St. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth century	1799
1815		Lewis, Matthew Gregory	Tales of Terror; Tales of Wonder; Romantic Tales	1799; 1801; 1808
1814		Brown, Charles Brockden	Jane Talbot	1801
1817		Maturin, the Revd. Charles R.	Fatal Revenge; or the Family of Montorio	1807
1817		Lewis, Matthew Gregory	The Anaconda, from Romantic Tales	1808
1816		Maturin, the Revd. Charles R.	The Milesian Chief	1812
1818		Byron, George Gordon, Lord	The Giaour: a fragment of a Turkish tale	1813
1816	x	Coleriedge, Samuel Taylor	Christabel; Khubla Khan, a vision; The Pains of Sleep	1816
1816, 1817	x (1816)	Lamb, Lady Caroline	Glenarvon	1816
1816	x	Maturin, the Revd. Charles R.	Bertram; or, the Castle of St. Aldobrand	1816
1818		Maturin, the Revd. Charles R.	Woman, ou Pour et Contre	1818