The author explores working class poets and hundreds of self-styled writers as well as the newspapers and magazines which made Dundee such an important cultural center. These volumes are intended to be a concise reference work, a guide to the numerous writers, poets and playwrights who have contributed to Dundee's imaginative view of itself. It is intended as a useful affirmation of the city's voyage of discovery into the new millennium.

This collection covers the lyrical poetry of Mary Shelley, as well as her writings for Lardner's "Cabinet Cyclopaedia of Biography" and some other materials only recently attributed to her.