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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 Mary Shelley 1818: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Book

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  • Cover of: Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

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  • Cover of: The journals of Mary Shelley: 1814-1844
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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, Biography, Fiction, science fiction, general, Horror tales, Scientists, fiction, Victor Frankenstein (Fictitious character), Juvenile fiction, 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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