Children's Literature
| Title | Authors | First publication | Composition date | Manuscript | Notes | Online text |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proserpine | Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Winter's Wreath for 1832. London: Wittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, n.d. | Finished by 3 April 1820 | Fragment of the manuscript is in Pforzheimer Collection at the New York Public Library | Percy Shelley contributed two lyric poems: "Arethusa" and "Song of Proserpine While Gathering Flowers on the Plain of Enna". The published version of the play was cut by about one-fifth from the manuscript version. | Gutenberg |
| Midas | Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley | Proserpine & Midas. Two unpublished Mythological Dramas by Mary Shelley. Ed. A. H. Koszul. London: Humphrey Milford, 1922. | 1820 | Percy Shelley contributed two lyric poems. | Gutenberg | |
| Maurice; or, The Fisher's Cot | Mary Shelley | Ed. Claire Tomalin. London: Viking, 1998. | 10 August 1820 | This manuscript was discovered by Cristina Dazzi in Italy in 1997. |
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