Michelle Faubert is Associate Professor of English at the University of Manitoba.

* Awknowledgements* Introduction* Mary Shelley: A Brief Chronology* A Note on the Text*Mathilda* Appendix A: The Romantic-era Suicide Debate* From William Godwin's An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness (1793)* From David Hume's Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul (1793)* From William Rowley's A Treatise on Female, Nervous, Hysterical ... Diseases (1788)* From John Francis' "Sermon III. On Self-Murder" (1749)* From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)* From Lord Byron's Manfred (1817)* William Wordsworth's "The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman" (1798)* Appendix B: Family Resemblances * Full-detail transcription from Mary Shelley's manuscript of "Mathilda" (1819)* From Mary Shelley's "The Fields of Fancy" (1819)* From Mary Shelley's "The Mourner" (1830)* From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818)* From Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary, A Fiction (1788)* From Mary Wollstonecraft's The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria (1798)* From Mary Wollstonecraft's "Cave of Fancy" (composed 1787; published 1798)* Appendix C: Incest, the Gothic, Literary Forebears* From Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Cenci (1819)* From Percy Bysshe Shelley's Laon and Cythna (1818)* From Vittorio Alfieri's Myrrha (1815)* From Matthew Lewis' The Monk (1796)* From Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764)* Appendix D: Biographical Context: Shelley's Letters and Journals* Letter from Godwin to P. B. Shelley on Fanny Imlay's suicide (1816)* From Harriet Shelley's suicide letter (1816)* Letter by Mary Shelley on William Shelley's final illness (1819)* William Godwin's letter to Mary Shelley on her son's death (1819)