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Mary decided
Falkner would be her last novel because public criticism over the years had begun to take its toll on her. After
Falkner, her last major work was published in 1844. It was a travel book titled
Rambles in Germany and Italy and intentionally written in the style of Wollstonecraft’s
Letters from Sweden.
Mary Shelley Biographies
The first accurate biography of Mary Shelley was written in 1951 by Muriel Spark. Many other comprehensive Mary Shelley biographies have been published since. This long wait is due to Mary’s daughter-in-law, Jane Gibson Shelley, destroying many documents that pertained to Mary’s youthful escapades with Percy. She burned diary entries from the period when Claire (Jane) and Percy may have had an affair, and Mary’s reaction to events is lost. She also destroyed pages of Percy Shelley’s diaries. Although Mary had begun the task of erasing Percy’s misdeeds in the works she published about him in her attempt to restore his literary le