was the last work Mary Shelley published during her lifetime (1797-1851). Written in 1843 and published the following year in two volumes, the book is a travel account in epistolary form of the Continental journeys that Mary Shelley undertook with her only surviving son Percy Florence and a few of his Cambridge friends. It recounts the author’s return to Italy seventeen years after her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley’s drowning in the Gulf of La Spezia. For Mary Shelley, Italy was a Paradise both lost and regained, loaded with memories. Not only had the Shelleys lived there from 1818 until P.B. Shelley’s death in 1822 and Mary’s return to England in 1823, but their children Clara and William had also died in Venice and in Rome, in…
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Citation: Guerra, Fiorella. "Rambles in Germany and Italy". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05 September 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=14372, accessed 31 October 2024.]
