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A Tale of the Passions; or, The Death of Despina

Mary Shelley

First published 1891
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette


First published in The Liberal: Verse and Prose from the South, No. 2 [January 1823], pp. 289-325; as "A Tale of the Passions", uncredited

This was "Mary Shelley's first published work after her husband's death on 8 July 1822", finished before his death according to reported evidence, not confirmed. Definitely she submitted the MS to {{a|Leigh Hunt}} by November 1822. --Charles E. Robinson, 1976 collection "Notes", I, p. 374 (viewed at Amazon)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1891 Cover Tales and Stories William Paterson Collection 112
1891 Tales and Stories J. B. Lippincott Collection |112
June 1975 Tales and Stories Gregg Press Collection 112
1976 Cover Collected Tales and Stories with Original Engravings The Johns Hopkins University Press Collection 1
1990 Cover Collected Tales and Stories with Original Engravings The Johns Hopkins University Press Collection 1
February 2010 Cover The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mary Shelley: Volume 1 Leonaur Ltd Omnibus |13
February 2010 Cover The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mary Shelley: Volume 1 Leonaur Ltd Omnibus
March 2018 Tales and Stories Project Gutenberg Collection 112