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Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley was born in London in 1797, daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, famous radical writers of the day. Mary’s mother died tragically ten days after the birth. Under Godwin’s conscientious and expert tuition, Mary’s was an intellectually stimulating childhood, though she often felt misunderstood by her stepmother and neglected by her father. In 1814 she met and soon fell in love with the then unknown Percy Bysshe Shelley, and in July they eloped to the Continent. In December 1816, after Shelley’s first wife, Harriet, committed suicide, Mary and Percy married. Of the four children she bore Shelley, only Percy Florence survived. They lived in Italy from 1818 until 1822, when Shelley drowned following the sinking of his boat Ariel in a storm. Mary returned with Percy Florence to London, where she continued to live as a professional writer until her death in 1851.
The idea for Frankenstein came to Mary Godwin during a summer sojourn in 1816 with Percy Shelley on the shores of Lake Geneva, where Lord Byron was also staying. She was inspired to begin her unique tale after Byron suggested a ghost story competition. Byron himself produced “A Fragment,” which later inspired his physician John Polidori to write The Vampyre. Mary completed her short story back in England, and it was published as Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus in 1818. Among her other novels are The Last Man (1826), a dystopian story set in the twenty-first century, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1830), Lodore (1835), and Falkner (1837). As well as contributing many stories and essays to publications such as the Keepsake and the Westminster Review, she wrote numerous biographical essays for Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopaedia (1835, 1838–39). Her other books include the first collected edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Poetical Works (4 vols., 1839) and a book based on the Continental travels she undertook with her son Percy Florence and his friends, Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844). Mary Shelley died in London on February 1, 1851.
The Last Man
The Last Man
Mary Shelley
9780143137900
$18.00 US
Paperback
Apr 09, 2024
World
Frankenstein: Your Classics. Your Choices.
Frankenstein: Your Classics. Your Choices.
Mary Shelley , M. D. Payne
9780593095928
$7.99 US
Paperback
Aug 17, 2021
World
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
9780593203392
$14.99 US
Hardcover
Aug 25, 2020
World
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Mary Shelley
9780143131847
$11.00 US
Paperback
Jan 16, 2018
World
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley , Daniel Clowes
9780141393391
$25.00 US
Hardcover
Sep 30, 2014
US, Canada, Open Mkt
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
9780143122333
$26.00 US
Hardcover
Oct 01, 2013
World
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
9780451532244
$6.95 US
Mass Market Paperback
Oct 01, 2013
World
The Original Frankenstein
The Original Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
9780307474421
$16.00 US
Paperback
Sep 08, 2009
US, Canada, Open Mkt
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
9780375753411
$10.00 US
Paperback
Jan 26, 1999
World
Mary; Maria; Matilda
Mary; Maria; Matilda
Mary Wollstonecraft , Mary Shelley
9780140433715
$16.00 US
Paperback
May 04, 1993
US, Canada, Open Mkt

Books

The Last Man
The Last Man
Mary Shelley
9780143137900
$18.00 US
Paperback
Apr 09, 2024
World
Frankenstein: Your Classics. Your Choices.
Frankenstein: Your Classics. Your Choices.
Mary Shelley, M. D. Payne
9780593095928
$7.99 US
Paperback
Aug 17, 2021
World
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
9780593203392
$14.99 US
Hardcover
Aug 25, 2020
World
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Mary Shelley
9780143131847
$11.00 US
Paperback
Jan 16, 2018
World
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley, Daniel Clowes
9780141393391
$25.00 US
Hardcover
Sep 30, 2014
US, Canada, Open Mkt
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
9780143122333
$26.00 US
Hardcover
Oct 01, 2013
World
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
9780451532244
$6.95 US
Mass Market Paperback
Oct 01, 2013
World
The Original Frankenstein
The Original Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
9780307474421
$16.00 US
Paperback
Sep 08, 2009
US, Canada, Open Mkt
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
9780375753411
$10.00 US
Paperback
Jan 26, 1999
World
Mary; Maria; Matilda
Mary; Maria; Matilda
Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley
9780140433715
$16.00 US
Paperback
May 04, 1993
US, Canada, Open Mkt

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