Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(1797 - 1851)
English novelist, short story writer, and travel writer.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Introduction
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Principal Works
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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 i...
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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...
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Biography EssayBy 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;...
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) is best known for her novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which has transcended the Gothic and horror genres and is now recognized as a work o...
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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 ...
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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 pare...
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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 Moder...
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When Mary Shelley returned to England from the Continent in August 1823 and began writing short fiction in earnest, she was already a well-known figure on the English literary scene. She was the aut...
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When they hear the name "Shelley," most students and scholars of literature usually think of the great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Students and scholars of those particular types of literature...
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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," ...
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - (1797 - 1851)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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