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Sci Fi Focus > Encyclopedia > Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley (1797-1851), born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, was an English novelist, author of *FRANKENSTEIN, OR THE MODERN PROMETHEUS* and wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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By Mary Shelley
Simon & Brown Released: 2011-10-24 Paperback (208 pages)
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By Mary Shelley
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By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Table of Contents
List of Works by Genre and Title Mary Shelley Biography
Novels :: Plays :: Non-Fiction :: Short Stories
Novels Frankenstein (1818) The Last Man (1826) Mathilda (1819) Valperga (1823) Lodore (1835) Falkner; A Novel (1837) The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1830)
Plays Midas (1820) Proserpine (1820)
Non-fiction Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1839)
Short Stories The Dream (1831) The Mortal Immortal (1833) The Evil Eye (1829) The Invisible Girl (1832) On Ghosts (1824) The Heir of Mondolfo |
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By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
General Books LLC Paperback (56 pages)
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By Dorothy Hoobler
Back Bay Books Paperback (400 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: One murky night in 1816, on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron, famed English poet, challenged his friends to a contest--to write a ghost story. The assembled group included the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley; his lover (and future wife) Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; Mary's stepsister Claire Claremont; and Byron's physician, John William Polidori. The famous result was Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a work that has retained its hold on the popular imagination for almost two centuries. Less well-known was the curious Polidori's contribution: the first vampire novel. And the evening begat a curse, too: Within a few years of Frankenstein's publication, nearly all of those involved met untimely deaths. Drawing upon letters, rarely tapped archives, and their own magisterial rereading of Frankenstein itself, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler have crafted a rip-roaring tale of obsession and creation. |
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By Mary Shelley
Simon & Brown Paperback (254 pages)
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By Miranda Seymour
Grove Press Paperback (672 pages)
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Washington Post Best Book of 2001, Mary Shelley has been called "a harrowing life, wonderfully retold" (The Washington Post). This "splendid biography" (The New Yorker) gracefully moves through the dramatic life of the woman behind history's most legendary monster. A daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, author of the daring A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and the radical philosopher William Godwin, Mary Shelley grew up amid the literary and political avant-garde of early-nineteenth-century London. She escaped to Europe at seventeen with the married poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, causing a great scandal. On a famous night of eerie thunderstorms, in a villa near Lord Byron's on Lake Geneva, they told ghost stories and tales of horror, giving birth to the idea of Frankenstein, a monster who has haunted imaginations for nearly two hundred years. The Mary we meet here, brilliantly brought to life by Seymour from previously unexplored sources, is brave, generous, and impetuous. Struck by tragedy, she lost three of her four children, and when she was only twenty-four, Shelley drowned off the coast of Italy. As Henry Carrigan of Library Journal said, this is "one of the finest and most significant literary biographies of recent years." "Miranda Seymour's biography of Mary Shelley provides a thoughtfully considered, lifelike portrait of a complex, often misunderstood character." -- Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times "[Miranda Seymour] has vivid narrative gifts and a perceptive understanding of the main personalities." -- Claude Rawson, The New York Times Book Review "Mary Shelley is the most dazzling biography of a female writer to have come my way for a decade." -- Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times |
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By Mary W. Shelley
Halcyon Press Ltd. Released: 2009-08-14 Kindle Edition
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Contents
Frankenstein Falkner, A Novel Lodore The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck Valperga The Last Man The Mortal Immortal On Ghosts The Evil Eye The Invisible Girl The Dream The Heir of Mondolfo
This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected.
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By Anne K. Mellor
Routledge Paperback (296 pages)
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Click Here | Product Description: This innovative study gives a powerfully argued view of Mary Shelley's life and works, using not only her masterpiece, but also The Last Man and other fiction. Drawing on unpublished archival material, Anne Mellor studies the relationships between Mary Shelley, her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, and other key personalities in her circle. Throughout the book, the ways in which Mary Shelley's life and writings voice a distinct personal philosophy about the bourgeois nuclear family are unfolded. Not just a horror story, Frankenstein is a warning about parents who fail to care for their children, when Shelley's ideal family' is absent, and when scientists refuse to take responsibility for their discoveries. At the same time, she emerges as a critic of the romantic ideology that elevates the creative process above the created product. |
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