Mathilda

Renew：Part 10
Author：Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Update：08-15-2023
Tags：Fiction Literature
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Chapter 1 through the beginning of Chapter 10, 116 pages. The concluding portion occupies the first fifty-four pages of the Bodleian notebook. There is then a blank page, followed by three and a half pages, scored out, of what seems to be a variant of the end of Chapter 1 and the beginning of Chapter 2. A revised and expanded version of the first part of Mathilda"s narrative follows (Chapter 2 and the beginning of Chapter 3), with a break between the account of her girlhood in Scotland and the brief description of her father after his return. Finally there are four pages of a new opening, which was used in _Mathilda_. This is an extremely rough draft: punctuation is largely confined to the dash, and there are many corrections and alterations. The Sh.e.l.ley-Rolls fragments, twenty-five sheets or slips of paper, usually represent additions to or revisions of _The Fields of Fancy_: many of them are numbered, and some are keyed into the ma.n.u.script in Lord Abinger"s notebook. Most of the changes were incorporated in _Mathilda_.
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter II is entirely new.
Chapter V, in which Mary"s emotional disturbance in writing about the change in Mathilda"s father (representing both Sh.e.l.ley and G.o.dwin?) shows itself on the pages of the MS. They look more like the rough draft than the fair copy. There are numerous slips of the pen, corrections in phrasing and sentence structure, dashes instead of other marks of punctuation, a large blot of ink on f. 57, one major deletion (see note 32).
Chapter V.
Chapter 10