Charles Robinson was the first to suggest that this anonymous story was Mary Shelley's (see Bennett edn. of MWS Letters, I, 413n). No external, documentary proof exists for her authorship, but the 1824 work is obviously relevant to The Last Man in any case.

---

Romantic Circles / Electronic Editions / The Last Man / Note: Authorship of "Rome in the First and the Nineteenth Centuries"

---