Mathilda by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | Audiobook

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Title: Mathilda
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Narrator: Sarah Douglas
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-08-15
Publisher: Spokenworld Audio & Ladbroke Audio Ltd
Genres: Classics, British Literature

Summary:
The second novel from Mary Shelley, written in 1819-20 but not published in full until 1959. The story deals with common romantic themes but also incest and suicide. Narrating from her deathbed, Mathilda tells the story of her unnamed fathers confession of incestuous love for her, followed by his suicide by drowning; her relationship with a gifted young poet called Woodville fails to reverse Mathildas emotional withdrawal or prevent her lonely death.
The act of writing this short novel distracted Mary Shelley from her grief after the deaths of her one-year-old daughter ,Clara, at Venice in September 1818 and her three-year-old son, William, in June 1819 in Rome. These losses plunged Mary Shelley into a depression that distanced her emotionally and sexually from Percy Shelley and left her, as he put it, 'on the hearth of pale despair'.
The story may be seen as a metaphor for what happens when a woman, ignorant of all consequences, follows her own heart while dependent on her male benefactor.

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