- ^ Clemit, "Legacies of Godwin and Wollstonecraft", 37. Mary Shelley spelled the novella's title "Matilda" and the heroine's name "Mathilda". The book has been published under each title.
- ^ Todd, Introduction to Matilda, xxii; Bennett, An Introduction, 47. During this period, Percy Shelley dramatised an incestuous tale of his own, The Cenci.
- ^ Nitchie, Elizabeth (July 1943). "Mary Shelley's "Mathilda": An Unpublished Story and Its Biographical Significance". Studies in Philology. 40 (3). University of North Carolina Press: 447–462. JSTOR 4172624 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Hurlock, Kathleen (2019). "Marking 200 years of Mary Shelley's Mathilda". Keats-Shelley Association of America. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
- ^ Hoeveler, Diane L. (12 January 2005). "Screen Memories and Fictionalized Autobiography: Mary Shelley's Mathilda and The Mourne". Nineteenth-Century Contexts. 27 (4). Taylor & Francis (Routledge): 365–381. doi:10.1080/08905490500444023. ISSN 1477-2663.
- ^ "When I wrote Matilda, miserable as I was, the inspiration was sufficient to quell my wretchedness temporarily." Journal entry, 27 October 1822, quoted in Bennett, An Introduction, 53; see also, The Journals of Mary Shelley, 442.
- ^ "Thou art fled, gone down the dreary road," he wrote, "that leads to Sorrow's most obscure abode". From "To Mary Shelley", published in Mary Shelley's edition of Percy Shelley's poetical works, 1839. Quoted in Todd, Introduction to Matilda, xvi; see also Mellor, Mary Shelley, 142.
- ^ Bennett, Betty T. (1990). The Mary Shelley Reader. Oxford University Press. p. 176.
- ^ Bennett, Betty T (1990). The Mary Shelley Reader. Oxford University Press. p. 199.
- ^ The novella's 1959 editor, Elizabeth Nitchie, for example, states: "The three main characters are clearly Mary herself, Godwin, and Shelley, and their relations can easily be reassorted to correspond with reality". Introduction to Mathilda; see also, Mellor, Mary Shelley, 143.
- ^ a b c Nitchie, Introduction to Mathilda.
- ^ Todd, Introduction to Matilda, xviii.
- ^ Todd, Introduction to Mathilda, xix.
- ^ Todd, Introduction to Mathilda, xx–xxi.
- ^ Clemit, "From The Fields of Fancy to Matilda ", 64–75.
- ^ Garrets, Margaret Davenport (1996). "Writing and Re-writing Incest in Mary Shelley's Mathilda". Keats-Shelley Journal. 45: 44–60. JSTOR 30210338.
- ^ Faubert, Michelle. "Introduction to Transcription of Mathilda for the Shelley-Godwin Archive". The Shelley-Godwin Archive. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
- ^ Miller, Kathleen A (2008). ""The Remembrance Haunts Me Like a Crime": Narrative Control, the Dramatic, and the Female Gothic in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Mathilda". Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 27 (2): 291–308. doi:10.1353/tsw.2008.a266826. JSTOR 20541066. S2CID 161949147 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Moore, Melina (2011). "Mary Shelley's Mathilda and the Struggle for Female Narrative Subjectivity" (PDF). Rocky Mountain Review. 65 (2). Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association: 208–215. doi:10.1353/rmr.2011.0028. S2CID 170657269.
- ^ Faubert, Michelle (30 August 2017). "On Editing Mary Shelley's Mathilda". Broadview Press. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
- ^ Todd, Introduction to Mathilda, xvii.
- ^ Letter to Maria Gisborne, 15 August 1822. Todd, Introduction to Mathilda, xvii.
- ^ Clemit, "From The Fields of Fancy to Matilda ", 64.
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