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Author: Shelley, Mary

Pseudonyms:
Spouse/other names:Wollstonecraft | Godwin
Gender:female
Year of birth:1797
Year of death:1851
About her personal situation:standardizingjul12fms:   Origin • Location where born : London • Location where died : London   National identity • Nationality : English • Mother tongue : English   Marital status : married (Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1816); widowed 1822   Number of children : 5 (1 surviving to adulthood)   Social class : middle   Religion/ideology : unknown

Countries:England
Languages:English
Relations to other authors:
Friend of King, Margaret
Daughter of Wollstonecraft, Mary &&&

About her professional situation:standardizingjul12fms: Publishing under: - married name: "by Mrs. Shelley" - pseudonym neutral: "by the author of Frankenstein" Profession(s) and activities: - fiction writer - traveller - historian - biographer - contributor to periodical press - poet Languages in which she published : - English Collaboration/connections with male authors : - Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (husband) - Poet George Gordon Byron (friend) Financial aspects: - unknown Memberships : unknown
Elements of bibliography:MENTIONED IN: - Pléiade, Dict. des littératures p.453 - Lettres européennes (Dutch version 1994) II, 773. - Vaessens, Geschiedenis van de moderne Nederlandse literatuur, 2013, p.124, 140 Ahlbrand, Sheila. 1997. Author and Editor: Mary Shelley’s Private Writings and the Author Function of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Iconoclastic Departures: Mary Shelley after Frankenstein. Essays in Honor of the Bicentenary of Mary Shelley’s Birth. Eds. Syndy M. Conger, Frederick S. Frank and Gregory O’Dea. Cranbury, NJ; London; Missisauga, Ontario: Associated University Presses. 35-61. Alexander, Meena. 1989. Women in Romanticism: Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley. Houndmills: Macmillan. Allen, Graham. 2007. Mary Shelley as Elegiac Poet: “The Return” and “The Choice”. Romanticism 13 (3): 219-32. Allen, Graham. 2008. Mary Shelley: Critical Issues. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Baldick, Chris. 1996. In Frankenstein’s Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Beer, John. 1999. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. A Companion to Romanticism. Ed. Duncan Wu. London: Blackwell Publishers. 227-36. Behrendt, Stephen. 1995. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and the Woman Writer’s Fate. Romantic Women Writers: Voices and Countervoices. Eds. Paula R. Feldman and Theresa M. Kelley. University Press of New England. http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Articles/behrendt.html (accessed May 10, 2010). Bennett, Betty T. 2003. Mary Shelley’s Letters: the Public/Private Self. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley. Ed. Esther Schor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 211-25. Bennett, Betty T. 1996. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: An Introduction. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Bennett, Betty T., and Charles E. Robinson, eds. 1990. The Mary Shelley Reader. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Brailsford, H. N. 1949. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle. London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press. Brewer, William Dean. 2001. The Mental Anatomies of William Godwin and Mary Shelley. Cranbury, NJ; London; Missisauga, Ontario: Associated University Presses. Bunnell, Charlene E. 2002. All the World’s a Stage: Dramatic Sensibility in Mary Shelley’s Novels. New York: Routledge. Cameron, Kenneth Neill, ed. 1970. Shelley and his Circle 1773-1822. Vols. III and IV. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. Clairmont, Claire. 1970. Journal. Shelley and His Circle 1773-1822. Ed. K. N. Cameron. Vol. III. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 342-52. Colbert, Benjamin. 1999. Contemporary Notice of the Shelleys’ History of Six Weeks’ Tour: Two Early Reviews. Keats-Shelley Journal 48: 22-29. Conger, Syndy M., Frederick S. Frank, and Gregory O’Dea, eds. 1997. Iconoclastic Departures: Mary Shelley after Frankenstein. Essays in Honor of the Bicentenary of Mary Shelley’s Birth. Cranbury, NJ; London; Missisauga, Ontario: Associated University Presses. Corbett, Mary Jean. 1993. Reading Mary Shelley’s Journals: Romantic Subjectivity and Feminist Criticism. The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein. Eds. Audrey A. Fisch, Anne K. Mellor, and Esther H. Schor. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 73-88. Crook, Nora. 2000. Pecksie and the Elf: Did the Shelleys Couple Romantically? Romanticism on the Net. No. 18. http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2000/v/n18/005911ar.html (accessed June 7, 2010). Feldman, Paula R., and Diana Scott-Kilvert. 1995. Introd. to The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. xv-xxiii. Fisch, Audrey A., Anne K. Mellor, Esther H. Schor, eds. 1993. The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. Forman, H. Buxton, ed. 1911. The Elopement of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin as Narrated by William Godwin. N.p.: privately printed. Gittings, Robert, and Jo Manton. 1992. Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys 1798-1879. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. Godwin, William. 1987. Memoirs of the Author of The Rights of Woman. Mary Wollstonecraft: A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, and William Godwin’s Memoirs of the Author of The Rights of Woman. Ed. Richard Holmes. London: Penguin. 201-77. Hebron, Stephen, and Elizabeth C. Denlinger. 2010. Shelley’s Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family. Oxford: Bodleian Library Publishing. Holmes, Richard. 1987. Introd. to A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark and William Godwin’s Memoirs of the Author of The Rights of Woman. By Mary Wollstonecraft. London: Penguin Books. Homans, Margaret. 1995. Bearing Demons: Frankenstein’s Circumvention of the Maternal. Romanticism: A Critical Reader. Ed. Duncan Wu. London: Blackwell Publishers. 379-400. Jones, Angela D. 1997a. Lying Near the Truth: Mary Shelley Performs the Private. Iconoclastic Departures: Mary Shelley after Frankenstein. Essays in Honor of the Bicentenary of Mary Shelley’s Birth. Eds. Syndy M. Conger, Frederick S. Frank, and Gregory O’Dea. Cranbury, NJ; London; Missisauga, Ontario: Associated University Presses. 19-34. Jones, Frederick L. 1947. Preface to Mary Shelley’s Journals. Ed. Frederick L. Jones. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. vii-xvii. Kessel, Marcel. 1951. The Mark of X in Claire Clairmont’s Journals. PMLA 66 (6): 1180-83. Levine, George, and U. C. Knoepflmacher, eds. 1979. The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley’s Novel. Berkeley and Los Angeles; London: University of California Press. McEvoy, Emma. 2005. Groundless Metaphors and Living Maps in the Writing of Mary Shelley. Romanticism on the Net. No. 40. http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2005/v/n40/012464ar.html (accessed June 7, 2010). Mellor, Anne K. 1988. The Female in Frankenstein. Romanticism and Feminism. Ed. Anne K. Mellor. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 220-32. Mellor, Anne K. 1989. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. New York and London: Routledge. Morrison, Lucy, and Staci Stone. 2003. A Mary Shelley Encyclopedia. Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press. Morton, Timothy, ed. 2002. A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. London: Routledge. Orr, Clarissa Campbell. 1998. Mary Shelley’s Rambles in Germany and Italy, the Celebrity Author, and the Undiscovered Country of the Human Heart. Romanticism on the Net. No. 11. http://www.erudit.org/revue/ ron/1998/v/n11/005813ar.html (accessed June 7, 2010). Ożarska, Magdalena. 2011. Identity Problems of the Narrating I’s: Collaborative Writing and its Implications for the Early Journal of Mary Godwin (Later: Shelley) and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The New Review: An International Journal of British Studies 3: 49-58. Poovey, Mary. 1985. The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. Schor, Esther, ed. 2003. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Seymour, Miranda. 2000. Mary Shelley. London: John Murray. Simons, Judy. 1990. Diaries and Journals of Literary Women from Fanny Burney to Virginia Woolf. London: Macmillan. Spark, Muriel. 1987. Mary Shelley. New York and Scarborough, Ontario: New American Library. Sunstein, Emily W. 1989. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Wollstonecraft, Mary. 2003. The Collected Letters. Ed. Janet Todd. London: Penguin Books. Wollstonecraft, Mary. 1987. A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark and William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of The Rights of Woman. Ed. Richard Holmes. London: Penguin Books. Wollstonecraft, Mary. 1994. Thoughts on the Education of Daughters: with Reflections on Female Conduct, in the more Important Duties of Life. Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions of Femininity. Ed. Vivien Jones. London and New York: Routledge. 110-12. Wollstonecraft, Mary. 2004. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Ed. Miriam Brody. London: Penguin Books.
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Editors: Johanneke Straasheijm (update on 12 December 2009)
Emma van den Eijnde (update on 22 May 2010)
Francesca Scott (update on 12 July 2012)
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Magdalena Ożarska (update on 20 February 2013)
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Works written by this author

E 1 *Mary Shelley, the author ()
E 2 Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus (1818)
E 3 History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni (1817)
E 4 Journals (1882)
E 5 Lodore (1835)
E 6 Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843 (1844)

Authors read by this author

Xreception 1 Baillie, Joanna   -   Ethwald
Xreception 2 Baillie, Joanna   -   Orra
Xreception 3 Baillie, Joanna   -   De Monfort
Xreception 4 Barbauld, Anna Laetitia   -   Evenings at home
Xreception 5 Edgeworth, Maria   -   Castle Rackrent
Xreception 6 Edgeworth, Maria   -   Patronage
Xreception 7 Edgeworth, Maria   -   Ormond; Harrington
Xreception 8 Radcliffe, Ann   -   The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents
Xreception 9 Robinson, Mary   -   Vancenza, or the Dangers of Credulity
Xreception 10 Robinson, Mary   -   Vancenza, or the Dangers of Credulity
Xreception 11 Staël, Germaine de   -   Mémoires sur la vie privée de mon père
Xreception 12 Staël, Germaine de   -   Corinne ou l'Italie
Xreception 13 Wollstonecraft, Mary &&&   -   Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
Xreception 14 Wollstonecraft, Mary &&&   -   A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Xreception 15 Wollstonecraft, Mary &&&   -   Maria or the Wrongs of Woman
Xreception 16 Wollstonecraft, Mary &&&   -   Mary, a Fiction
Xreception 17 Wollstonecraft, Mary &&&   -   Elements of Morality for the use of young children
Xreception 18 Wollstonecraft, Mary &&&   -   Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution