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

Title: A Tale of the Passions; or, The Death of Despina Title Record # 98516
Author: Mary Shelley
Date: 1823-01-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Language: English

Note: 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 Leigh Hunt by November 1822. --Charles E. Robinson, 1976 collection "Notes", I, p. 374 (viewed at Amazon)

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Year	Title
1891	A Tale of the Passions; or, The Death of Despina [as by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley]
1976	A Tale of the Passions

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Tales and Stories	1891-00-00	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	J. B. Lippincott			xv+ 386	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Tales and Stories	1891-00-00	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	William Paterson			xiii+ 386	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Tales and Stories	1975-06-00	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	Gregg Press (The Gregg Press Science Fiction Series)	0-8398-2311-8	$18.00^?$: US dollar	xvii+ xv+ 386	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Collected Tales and Stories with Original Engravings	1976-00-00	Mary Shelley	The Johns Hopkins University Press	0-8018-4062-7		xix+ 400	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Collected Tales and Stories with Original Engravings	1990-00-00	Mary Shelley	The Johns Hopkins University Press	0-8018-4062-7		xix+ 400	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mary Shelley: Volume 1	2010-02-04	Mary Shelley	Leonaur Ltd (Leonaur Supernatural Fiction Series)	978-0-85706-057-0	£13.99^?£: UK pound	483	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni	Michael Conrad Hirt
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mary Shelley: Volume 1	2010-02-04	Mary Shelley	Leonaur Ltd (Leonaur Supernatural Fiction Series)	978-0-85706-058-7	£21.99^?£: UK pound	492	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni	Michael Conrad Hirt
Tales and Stories	2018-03-01	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	Project Gutenberg	56665	$0.00^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll

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