Talk:The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley/Journal at Geneva (including Ghost Stories) and on Return to England, 1816

Notes from original transclusion, as Journal at Geneva (including Ghost Stories) and on Return to England, 1816

As the editor's note on the second page indicates, the journal was first published after the death of P. B. Shelley, edited by his wife Mary Shelley in Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments, by Percy Bysshe Shelley. (Volume two of two. London: Edward Moxon, 1840 [1839]).

This edition, however, is taken from:

Forman, Harry Buxton (ed.) The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Volume II (of four). London: Reeves and Turner. 1880.

As a result, the work (transcribed from this copy with its editor's note, page numbers etc.) is marked as being edited by Forman, and published in 1880, though it was first published in 1839 (dated 1840) and of course the text itself dates from 1816. Xensyria (talk) 23:01, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

The "King of the Cats" story was first published under the title "Ghost Story, by M.G. Lewis" with a noticeably (but insubstantially) different wording in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12, Issue 337, October 25, 1828. Xensyria (talk) 23:25, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

UPDATE: The Mirror version actually seems to be a shameless reprint of the same version (word for word, except for "sat" instead of "sate" and double rather than single quotation marks around Then I am king of the cats) published in Mary Shelley's "On Ghosts" published in London Magazine 9, March 1824, pp.253–256.

She introduces the story saying "I relate it as nearly as possible in his own words", but she is known for minor rewording, so the differences can probably be put down to her editing. Xensyria (talk) 00:48, 12 July 2012 (UTC)