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Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. (Source.)

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English writer (1797–1851)

Born 30 August 1797
Died 1 February 1851

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  • Cover of: Frankenstein galvanized: includes Mary Shelley Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus : the 1818 text plus analysis and commentary

    First published in 2012 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Annotated and Illustrated: The Uncensored 1818 Text with Maps, Essays, and Analysis

    First published in 2017 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus : (Shelley's Final Revision, 1831)

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English writer (1797–1851)

Born 30 August 1797
Died 1 February 1851

Subjects

Fiction, Horror stories, Horror tales, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Children's fiction, English Authors, Fiction, horror, short stories, Juvenile fiction, Monsters, Scientists, Victor Frankenstein (Fictitious character), Correspondence, Fiction, science fiction, general, Frankenstein (Fictitious character), Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character), American Horror tales, English Horror tales, English literature, Frankenstein (fictitious character), fiction, History, Scientists, fiction, horror, Biography, Drama

Places

Araby, Araby bazaar, North Richmond Street, England, Europe, Geneva (Switzerland), Italy, London, Lucerne, Toledo, Archangel, Buenos Aires, Devon, Florida, Fountain of Youth, Geneva, Germany, Grande-Bretagne, Great Britain, Jefferson, Lucca (Italy), Massachusetts, Memphis, Mississippi, New England

People

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), Mangan's sister, Victor Frankenstein (Fictitious character), Ethelred, Father Time, Madeline Usher, Roderick Usher, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Alfred Doolittle, Berenice, Castruccio Castracani (1281-1328), Colonel Killigrew, Colonel Pickering, Colonel Sartoris, Devil, Dr. Heidegger, Egaeus, Eliza Doolittle, Emily Grierson, Ernest Valdemar, Ezra Buckley, F. B. Sanborn (1831-1917), Faith Brown, Faucigny Lucinge, Fortunato

Time

19th century, 1268-1492, 1485-1509 (Henri VII), 14th century, 1600s, 1700s, 17th century, 1912, 1935-1947, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1947, 21st Century, Antebellum era, Carnival, Henry VII, 1485-1509

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Alternative names

  • Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
  • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • Mary W. Shelley
  • Mary Godwin Shelley

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May 15, 2024 Edited by bitnapper merge authors
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April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import