Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Among the noteworthy biographies are Muriel Spark, Mary Shelley (1987); Anne K. Mellor, Mary Shelley (1988); Emily W. Sunstein, Mary Shelley (1989); Johanna M. Smith, Mary Shelley (1996); Betty T. Bennett, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: An Introduction (1998); Miranda Seymour, Mary Shelley (2000), perhaps the best among them; John Williams, Mary Shelley: A Literary Life (2000); Martin Garrett, Mary Shelley (2002); Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler, The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein (2006); and Charlotte Gordon, Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley (2015), a double biography.
Other works of interest include Robert Gittings and Jo Manton, Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys 1798â1879 (1992); Audrey A. Fisch, Anne K. Mellor, and Esther H. Schor (eds.), The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein (1993); Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran (eds.), Mary Shelley in Her Times (2000); Esther H. Schor (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley (2003); Susan Tyler Hitchcock, Frankenstein: A Cultural History (2007); Julie A. Carlson, Englandâs First Family of Writers: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley (2007); Daisy Hay, Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron, and Tangled Lives (2010; U.S. title Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetryâs Greatest Generation); and Roseanne Montillo, The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelleyâs Masterpiece (2013). Jane Donawerth, Frankensteinâs Daughters: Women Writing Science Fiction (1997), examines Mary Shelleyâs influence in the field of science fiction.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anniversary information added. | Aug 26, 2026 | ||
| Added more information about the themes of Frankenstein. | Jul 27, 2026 | ||
| Modified link of Web site: The Victorian Web - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. | Jul 24, 2026 | ||
| Added links. | Jan 30, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jan 28, 2026 | ||
| Added a cross-reference. | Nov 10, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Radio National Breakfast - Mary Wollstonecraft revisited. | Oct 11, 2025 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised. | Oct 10, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Digital Commons at Cal Poly Humboldt - Personal Problems = Great Literature: Shelley's Motherhood Issues Reflected In Frankenstein (PDF). | Aug 08, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Chawton House - Mary Shelley (1797-1851) (PDF). | Mar 20, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 11, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Brandeis University - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. | Jan 16, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Online Library of Liberty - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. | Jul 26, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 08, 2024 | ||
| Added media. | Nov 01, 2023 | ||
| Media added. | Oct 18, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: entral Square Theater - Mary Shelley and Frankenstein, Her Personal History. | Oct 17, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Pennsylvania - School of Arts and Sciences - Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. | Aug 08, 2023 | ||
| Cross-reference added. | Aug 04, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Literary Devcies - Biography of Mary Shelley. | Apr 04, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction - Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. | Nov 13, 2022 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jan 07, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Authors - Biography of Mary Shelley. | Feb 19, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: All Poetry - Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. | Apr 18, 2017 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Sep 23, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Victorian Web - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. | Aug 04, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Literature Network - Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. | Aug 04, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. | May 01, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Poetry Foundation - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. | Aug 12, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: The European Graduate School - Biography of Mary Shelley. | Aug 12, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Biography of Mary Shelley. | Jan 05, 2012 | ||
| Added new Web site: WebMd - Ebola Virus Infection. | Nov 16, 2007 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Dec 21, 2006 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Dec 21, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |