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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ( 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851 ) was an English novelist. She was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin , and married Percy Bysshe Shelley . Contents 1 Sourced 1.1...


Biography

Name: Mary Shelley
Birth Date: August 30, 1797
Place of Birth: London, England
Place of Death: Bournemouth, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Female

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Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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By the time she was nineteen, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley had written one of the most famous novels ever published. Embodying one of the central myths of Western culture, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818, tells the story...
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Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley
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The most eloquent summary of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's position in English letters is still Leigh Hunt's much-quoted couplet from "The Blue-Stocking Revels": "And Shelley, fourfam'd,--for her parents, her lord, / And the poor lone impossible...
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Biography of Mary Shelley
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Long after the event, Mary Shelley would recall the crucible out of which her most famous fictional progeny was fused. "In the summer of 1816, we visited Switzerland, and became the neighbors of Lord Byron.... But it proved a wet, ungenial summer, and...
 


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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Summary
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Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (1797–1851), author of Frankenstein (1818), often considered the first science fiction novel and source of the universal modern image of science gone awry, was born in London on August 30 and died there on...
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Summary
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The daughter of noted authors Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, Shelley became widely known as a literary talent of her own right with the 1818 publication of Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus. The story of a scientist who attempts to bring...
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - (1797 - 1851) Summary
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - (1797 - 1851) (Born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) English novelist, editor, critic, short story and travel writer. Shelley is best known for her novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which has transcended the...
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Mary Shelley Information
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin) (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English romantic/gothic novelist and the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. She was married to the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe...


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The Troubled Last Years of Mary Shelley
08/28/1988: 929 words, approx. 3 pages
THE LETTERS OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Volume III "What Years I Have Spent!" Edited by Betty T. Bennett The Johns Hopkins University Press 473 pp. $37.50 BY THE TIME this third volume of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's letters opens...
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Mary Shelley's Mystery Man; One Author's Passion for Another's Secret Life
03/06/1991: 1,730 words, approx. 6 pages
The cover of Betty T. Bennett's new book, "Mary Diana Dods, a Gentleman and a Scholar," promises "An Astonishing Revelation of a Daring 170-Year-old Deception." And if that high Victorian come-on doesn't grab all romantic readers, the prologue will: "... in the early...
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Rasputina
8/14/2007: 286 words, approx. 1 pages
Rasputina fills a unique niche in independent music, that of a ladies cello society, and for over ten years, they’ve been releasing highly stylized records that can be compared to little else. After taking a three-year hiatus, Rasputina is back with Oh Perilous World, and...
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Spark, Dame Muriel
12/31/2006: 366 words, approx. 1 pages
British writer (b. Feb. 1, 1918, Edinburgh, Scot. —d. April 13, 2006, Florence, Italy ), was admired for the satire and wit with which she presented the serious themes of her novels and for her ability to create disturbing, compelling characters and a disquieting sense...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Mitzi Myers
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In the essay that follows, Myers examines Wollstonecraft's writings for the Analytical Review as attempts by Wollstonecraft to develop her unique voice as a "theorist of gender," particularly as she attempts to combine sensibility and reason into a broader humanism.


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