ABSTRACT
A widow at four-and-twenty years of age; left in a foreign land, with no certain income, and with a child to support; coldly regarded by her husband’s family, and possessed of no influential friends in England;— Mrs. Shelley now entered on a struggle which she has described as “lonely” and “unsolaced,” but which she encountered in the true spirit of heroism, and lived to see crowned with success and rewarded by happier clays.
