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Maurice (Shelley), the Glossary

"Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot" is a children's story by the Romantic writer Mary Shelley.^[1]

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1820 British novels
1820s children's books
Children's books set in Devon
Fiction about father–son relationships
Novels by Mary Shelley

Allegra Byron

Clara Allegra Byron (12 January 1817 – 20 April 1822) was the illegitimate daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Claire Clairmont.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children.

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Clara Mary Jane Clairmont (27 April 1798 – 19 March 1879), or Claire Clairmont as she was commonly known, was the stepsister of the writer Mary Shelley and the mother of Lord Byron's daughter Allegra.

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Claire Tomalin

Claire Tomalin (née Delavenay; born 20 June 1933) is an English journalist and biographer known for her biographies of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft.

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Devon

Devon (historically also known as Devonshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Didacticism

Didacticism is a philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature, art, and design.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Frankenstein

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Maurice (Shelley) and Frankenstein are novels by Mary Shelley.

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Freethought

Freethought (sometimes spelled free thought) is an unorthodox attitude or belief.

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George William Tighe

George William Tighe (25 February 1776March 1837) was an Irish agricultural theorist who spent much of his life in Italy.

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Giacomo Leopardi

Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi (29 June 1798 – 14 June 1837) was an Italian philosopher, poet, essayist, and philologist.

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Historical fiction

Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events.

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Lake Geneva

Lake Geneva (Léman, lac Léman, rarely lac de Genève; Lago Lemano; Genfersee; Lai da Genevra) is a deep lake on the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerland and France.

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Livorno

Livorno is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of the Tuscany region, Italy.

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Lodore

Lodore, also published under the title The Beautiful Widow, is the penultimate novel by Romantic novelist Mary Shelley, completed in 1833 and published in 1835. Maurice (Shelley) and Lodore are novels by Mary Shelley.

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Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer.

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Margaret King

Margaret King (1773–1835), also known as Margaret King Moore, Lady Mount Cashell and Mrs Mason, was an Anglo-Irish hostess, and a writer of female-emancipatory fiction and health advice.

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Marina Warner

Dame Marina Sarah Warner, (born 9 November 1946) is an English historian, mythographer, art critic, novelist and short story writer.

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Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who is best known for writing the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.

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Mary Shelley bibliography

This is a bibliography of works by Mary Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851), the British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel ''Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818).

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights.

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Mathilda (novella)

Mathilda, or Matilda, is the second long work of fiction of Mary Shelley, written between August 1819 and February 1820 and first published posthumously in 1959. Maurice (Shelley) and Mathilda (novella) are novels by Mary Shelley.

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Multiperspectivity

Multiperspectivity (sometimes polyperspectivity) is a characteristic of narration or representation, where more than one perspective is represented to the audience.

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Naples

Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.

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Narration

Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience.

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Original Stories from Real Life

Original Stories from Real Life; with Conversations Calculated to Regulate the Affections, and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness is the only complete work of children's literature by the 18th-century English feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered as one of the major English Romantic poets.

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Pisa

Pisa is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea.

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Proserpine (play)

Proserpine is a verse drama written for children by the English Romantic writers Mary Shelley and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Republicanism

Republicanism is a Western political ideology that encompasses a range of ideas from civic virtue, political participation, harms of corruption, positives of mixed constitution, rule of law, and others.

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Romantic poetry

Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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San Marcello Pistoiese

San Marcello Pistoiese was a comune (municipality) in the Province of Pistoia in the Italian region Tuscany, located about northwest of Florence and about northwest of Pistoia.

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Short story

A short story is a piece of prose fiction.

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Sir Percy Shelley, 3rd Baronet

Sir Percy Florence Shelley, 3rd Baronet, (12 November 1819 – 5 December 1889), was the son of the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his second wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist and author of Frankenstein.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Three-volume novel

The three-volume novel (sometimes three-decker or triple decker) was a standard form of publishing for British fiction during the nineteenth century.

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Torquay

Torquay is a seaside town in Devon, England, part of the unitary authority area of Torbay.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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Valperga (novel)

Valperga: or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca is an 1823 historical novel by the Romantic novelist Mary Shelley, set amongst the wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines (the latter of which she spelt "Ghibeline"). Maurice (Shelley) and Valperga (novel) are novels by Mary Shelley.

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William Godwin

William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist.

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (7 April 177023 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_(Shelley)

Also known as Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot.

Maurice (Shelley), the Glossary

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See also

1820 British novels

1820s children's books

Children's books set in Devon

Fiction about father–son relationships

Novels by Mary Shelley

References