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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
People/Characters: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Works (48)
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
by
Richard Holmes
Angelmonster
by
Veronica Bennett
Ariel
by
Andre Maurois
Byron: Life and Legend
by
Fiona MacCarthy
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
by
Peter Ackroyd
Child of Light: Mary Shelley
by
Muriel Spark
Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys 1798-1879
by
Robert Gittings
The Company of Friends
by
Lance Parkin
Count Manfred
by
Miranda Seymour
Daughter of earth and water; a biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
by
Noel Bertram Gerson
Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley circle
by
Janet Todd
Diaries and Journals of Literary Women from Fanny Burney to Virginia Woolf
by
Judy Simons
A different face: The life of Mary Wollstonecraft
by
Emily W. Sunstein
English Romantic Writers
by
David Perkins
Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer
by
Richard Holmes
Frankenstein Unbound
by
Brian W. Aldiss
The Godwins and the Shelleys: A Biography of a Family
by
William St. Clair
Haunted summer
by
Anne Edwards
Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
by
Diane Jacobs
In Search of Frankenstein
by
Radu Florescu
The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844: 1814-1822 (Journals of Mary Shelley, July, 1814-1822)
by
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft
by
Claire Tomalin
Mary Shelley
by
Muriel Spark
Mary Shelley
by
Harold Bloom
Mary Shelley
by
Miranda Seymour
Mary Shelley (British Library Writers' Lives Series)
by
Martin Garrett
Mary Shelley's monster : the story of Frankenstein
by
Martin Tropp
Mary Shelley: A Biography
by
R. Glynn Grylls
Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality
by
Emily W. Sunstein
A Monster's Notes
by
Laurie Sheck
The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein
by
Dorothy Hoobler
The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein
by
Audrey Fisch
Passion: A Novel of the Romantic Poets
by
Jude Morgan
Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Biography: Exile Of Unfulfilled Renown, 1816-1822
by
James Bieri
Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author (New York Review Books Classics)
by
Edward John Trelawny
Romantic correspondence : women, politics, and the fiction of letters
by
Mary A. Favret
The Romantic Poets and Their Circle (Character Sketches)
by
Richard Holmes
Romantic Women Writers: Voices and Countervoices
by
Paula R. Feldman
Sexuality and the Culture of Sensibility in the British Romantic Era
by
Christopher C. Nagle
Shelley and His World
by
Claire Tomalin
Shelley: The Pursuit (New York Review Books)
by
Richard Holmes
A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark and Memoirs of the Author of 'The Rights of Woman'
by
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Single Summer with L.B.
by
Derek Marlowe
The Stress of Her Regard
by
Tim Powers
Through the Tempests Dark and Wild : A Story of Mary Shelley, Creator of Frankenstein
by
Sharon Darrow
Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers
by
Jane Robinson
Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
by
Lyndall Gordon
Washington Irving: An American Original
by
Brian Jay Jones
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Recommendations
Frankenstein
by
Mary Shelley
Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804
by
Richard Holmes
Same series:
Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834
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Holmes' Coleridge
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Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame
by
Benita Eisler
Mary; Maria; Matilda (Penguin Classics)
by
Mary Wollstonecraft
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life
by
Claire Tomalin
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
by
Mary Wollstonecraft
Keats
by
Andrew Motion
The Invisible Woman: the Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens
by
Claire Tomalin
Prodigal Son
by
Dean Koontz
Same series:
City of Night
,
Dead and Alive
(
Dean Koontz's Frankenstein
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Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters
by
Anne K. Mellor
Virginia Woolf
by
Hermione Lee
Jane Austen: A Life
by
Claire Tomalin
The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein
by
Theodore Roszak
The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World
by
Jenny Uglow
The Anubis Gates
by
Tim Powers
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Peter Ackroyd
Brian W. Aldiss
Veronica Bennett
James Bieri
Harold Bloom
Sharon Darrow
Anne Edwards
Mary A. Favret
Paula R. Feldman
Audrey Fisch
Radu Florescu
Martin Garrett
Robert Gittings
Lyndall Gordon
R. Glynn Grylls
Richard Holmes
Dorothy Hoobler
Diane Jacobs
Brian Jay Jones
Fiona MacCarthy
Derek Marlowe
Andre Maurois
Jude Morgan
Christopher C. Nagle
Lance Parkin
David Perkins
Tim Powers
Jane Robinson
Miranda Seymour
Laurie Sheck
Judy Simons
Muriel Spark
William St. Clair
Emily W. Sunstein
Janet Todd
Claire Tomalin
Edward John Trelawny
Martin Tropp
Mary Wollstonecraft
Dana Fuller Ross
Mary Shelley
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, née Godwin (1797–1851) was an English writer best known for her Gothic novel "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus" (1818). She edited and promoted the works of her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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