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| Name: |
Mary Shelley | | Birth Date: |
August 30, 1797 | | Place of Birth: |
London, England | | Place of Death: |
Bournemouth, England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
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Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
6,717 words, approx. 22 pages
 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
5,738 words, approx. 19 pages
 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
4,761 words, approx. 16 pages
 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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Mary Shelley Quotes
6,520 words, approx. 22 pages
 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...


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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Summary
683 words, approx. 2 pages 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
339 words, approx. 1 pages (born Aug. 30, 1797, London, Eng.—died Feb. 1, 1851, London) English Romantic novelist best known as the author of Frankenstein. The only daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, she met the young poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812 and...
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
110 words, approx. 1 pages (born Aug. 30, 1797, London, Eng.—died Feb. 1, 1851, London) English Romantic novelist. The only daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, she met and eloped with Percy B. Shelley in 1814. They married in 1816 after his first wife...
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Mary Shelley Information
3,892 words, approx. 13 pages
 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 Economist (US)
Mary Shelley.
01/21/1989: 1,051 words, approx. 4 pages Her be monsters FEW groupings in literary history have attracted biographers more than the one which came about through Byron's friendship with the Shelleys. Byron was staying near them on Lake Geneva during the famous summer of 1816 when they started telling...
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 The Washington Post
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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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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`Frankenstein' brings classic to life
11/2/2007: 487 words, approx. 2 pages No sexy Inga, no green monster — and what is most important, no $450 seats."Frankenstein," a new musical now on view at 37 Arts, does have a last name in common with Mel Brooks' Broadway version, however. Hunter Foster has the part of Victor Frankenstein...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Mitzi Myers
12,245 words, approx. 41 pages
 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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