In Defence of Harriet Shelley
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. Twain is most noted for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). He is also known for his quotations. His first vital work, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, was published in 1865. His next publication was The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which drew on his youth in Hannibal. The character of Tom Sawyer was modeled on twain as a child, with traces of two schoolmates, John Briggs and Will Bowen. His next major published work, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, solidified him as a noteworthy American writer. Some have called it the first Fantastic American Novel. Finn was an offshoot from Tom Sawyer and proved to have a more serious tone than its predecessor. The main premise behind Huckleberry Finn is the young boy’s belief in the right thing to do even though the majority of society believes that it was incorrect.
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Before reading this brilliant essay you must be familiar with Percy Bysshe Shelley, a 19th century English poet and perhaps, nowadays, most legendary for being married to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the leader of Frankenstein. His most legendary bit of poetry in modern times is: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Before reading this essay, read a fleeting online biography about Mr. Shelley so that you can follow along with some knowledge of the basics. Twain’s essay is really a long review of a biography of Shelley by Edward Dowden: Life of Shelley, a book that is extremely dismissive of Harriet Shelley, Percy Shelley’s first wife – the one he left pregnant and with a child at home so that he could run away to Europe with Mary.
In no way is Twain’s essay honest towards Percy Shelley – it does not try to be and I do not reflect that it should be. It’s hard to defend a man who leaves his pregnant wife for a teenage girl. Twain rips this section of the biography apart bit by bit. Twain’s sarcastic bite is on full spectacle here – commentary that is very regularly laugh out loud amusing and very tender towards Harriet Shelley.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This is Mark Twain’s review of a then-well loved book which (rumor has it that) eulogized and excused Shelley’s abandonment of his first wife, Harriett. It’s a excellent example of Twain’s critical writing, and in some ways of his serious, but not as sharply sharp as his better-known criticism; fans of Twain’s invective should start somewhere else (I’d recommend his essay “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offences,” a critique of the Leatherstocking books).
Only recommended for Twain scholars, not all-purpose readers.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5