Betty T. Bennett

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Betty T. Bennett (born 1935 in Brooklyn ; † 2006 ) was an American literary scholar and dean of the American University . Betty B. Bennett was born in Brooklyn, New York. She studied at Brooklyn College and graduated magna cum laude . In 1962 she received her Masters and in 1970 she did her PhD in English and American Literature at New York University. From 1979 to 1985 she taught at the Pratt Institute .

Betty T. Bennett is best known as an expert on the work and life of Mary Shelley and her circle. Bennett's particularly outstanding work included the publication of the three volumes The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley from 1980 to 1988. In a review on the occasion of the publication of the last volume, Brian Aldiss described this as a milestone in literary studies. The three volumes contain 1,300 letters, 500 of which have never been published before. For the last few years before her death, Betty Bennett was working on a biography of Mary Shelley.

Work (selection)

  • British war poetry in the age of romanticism, 1793–1815 (1976)
  • The Evidence of the imagination: studies of interactions between life and art in English romantic literature (1978)
  • The letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1980–1988)
  • The Mary Shelley reader: containing Frankenstein, Mathilda, tales and stories, essays and reviews, and letters (1990)
  • Mary Diana Dods, a gentleman and a scholar (1991)
  • Mythological dramas: Proserpine and Midas / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1992)
  • Selected letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1995)
  • Shelley: poet and legislator of the world (1996)
  • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: an introduction (1998)
  • Lives of the great romantics III: Godwin, Wollstonecraft, and Mary Shelley by their contemporaries (1999)
  • Mary Shelley in her times (2000)

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personal data
SURNAME Bennett, Betty T.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn
DATE OF DEATH 2006