Tuesday, July 10, 2007

News at Eleven: It was, in [Janet] Todd's view,

her rejection by [Percy Bysshe] Shelley, Mary [Godwin] and Claire [Clairemont] that drove her to her pitiful end. In a final twist, Todd suggests it was probably Shelley who ripped the signature from Fanny [Wollstonecraft]'s suicide note, in hypocritical cahoots with Godwin to hush the matter up.

from The Sunday Times: Mad about the boy

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