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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

    First published in 1934 — 20 editions
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    First published in 2020 — 19 editions
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  • Cover of: Frankenstein: Dyslexia Edition with Dyslexie Font for Dyslexic Readers

    First published in 1718 — 19 editions
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    First published in 2018 — 16 editions
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    First published in 2021 — 16 editions
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  • Cover of: World's Great Classics: The Cricket on the Hearth

    First published in 2022 — 15 editions
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  • Cover of: The Book of fantasy

    Cover of edition antologadelali00borg Cover of edition bwb_P8-BAU-695 Cover of edition bookoffantasy0000borg Cover of edition bookoffantasy00jorg Cover of edition bookoffantasy0000unse Cover of edition bookoffantasy00borg Cover of edition bookfantasy00borg First published in 1940 — 14 editions
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    First published in 2004 — 12 editions
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    First published in 2017 — 12 editions
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English writer (1797–1851)

Born 30 August 1797
Died 1 February 1851

Subjects

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

Places

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

People

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Victor Frankenstein (Fictitious character), Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character), Mangan's sister, Castruccio Castracani (1281-1328), Ethelred, Father Time, Madeline Usher, Roderick Usher, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Alfred Doolittle, Berenice, 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

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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