1835 MARY SHELLEY 'Lodore' 1st Edition Review in The Museum, FRANKENSTEIN Author

Description: This is a scarce volume of the publication "The Museum of Foreign Literature and Science" - Volume XXVII containing six bound issues, July to December 1835. Published by Adam Waldie for E. Littell in Philadelphia. There is an Index at the front, and a table of Contents preceding each month's issue. Illustrated with five full-page engraved plates. This volume contains a rare review of "FRANKENSTEIN" author Mary Shelley's Gothic romance novel, "LODORE." At the time this review was written, the publication still questioned whether or not a female could have written Frankenstein - here's an excerpt from the review: "The publication of Lodore has gone a considerable way towards convincing us that Mrs. Shelley might have indeed been the author of Frankenstein - a work which we once believed could not possibly owe its existence to a female novelist; and this, not because there is a similitude between the structure and development of Frankenstein, that fearful and fantastic dream of genius, and the love story before us, which is of the everyday world - its doings and its sufferings, but because there is common to both a depth and sweep of thought - a knowledge of human kind, in its manifold relations with this earth - and a boldness and directness in penetrating to the recesses and displaying the motives and workings of the heart, its feelings and passions - not in woman only, but in man also - which we certainly should have imagined to be far beyond the scope and power of a lady." Here are examples of other interesting content:* Within an article titled "American Poetry" is the poem "Woods in Winter" by then-unknown poet HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW: "...we come to the following winter piece, by a poet whom we do not recollect having before heard of - H.W. Longfellow, ("Phoebus, what a name!") which seems to us remarkably graphic. Its accumulation of American winter imagery, produces a feeling like Shakspeare's "When icicles hang on the wall," till we almost begin with Hob "to blow the nail." The poem is included in its entirety. * An article about the rivalry between JOHN JAMES AUDUBON and Charles Waterton.* Two articles about the upcoming appearance of HALLEY'S COMET: "The Approaching Comet" and "Halley's Comet." * "Life and Times of (George) Washington" review.* "Anglimania" ("the passion for angling") article.* Commentary on Washington Irving with references to "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle."

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