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
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Andrew Sullivan on the War Within Conservatism and Why It Matters to All of Us
Credit.Nicolás Ortega
By Andrew Sullivan
CONSERVATISM
By Edmund Fawcett
From its very origins in resistance to revolutionary movements in the late 18th century, conservatism has had two broad contrasting moods. The first is an attachment to the world as it is, and a resistance to too drastic a change in anything. The second is an attachment to what once was and a radical desire to overturn the present in order to restore the past. Some have attempted to distinguish these two responses by defining conservatism as the more moderate version and reactionism as the more virulent. But Edmund Fawcett, in “Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition,” a truly magisterial survey of the thought and actions of conservatives in Britain, France, Germany and the United States, insists more interestingly that they are both part of conservatism in its different moods.