¹ Lee Sterrenburg, ‘The Last Man: Anatomy of Failed Revolutions’, Nineteenth Century Fiction, 33 (1978), 324–47.

² Earl Wasserman, Shelley: A Critical Reading (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971), 262n.

³ Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (New Haven, Conn, and London: Yale University Press, 1979), 95–104.

⁴ See Jean de Palacio, Mary Shelley dans son oeuvre (Paris: Editions Klincksieck, 1969), 664; and Elizabeth Nitchie, Mary Shelley: Author of ‘Frankenstein’ (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 151.

⁵ Introduction to Tales and Stories by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (London: William Paterson, 1891), p. ix.