Mary Shelley
English writer (1797–1851)
See also: Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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Date of birth | 30 August 1797 Somers Town (Middlesex, Kingdom of Great Britain) Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | ||||
Date of death | 1 February 1851 Chester Square (St George Hanover Square, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland), Bournemouth | ||||
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English: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, née Godwin (August 30, 1797 – February 1, 1851) was an English writer who is, perhaps, equally-famously remembered as the wife of Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and as the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus.
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Mary Shelley, by Reginald Easton (1820) (color)
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Mary Shelley, by Reginald Easton (1820) (B&W)
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Mary Shelley, by Richard Rothwell, 1840
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Mary Shelley, by Richard Rothwell, 1840 (high res)
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Mary Shelley, by Richard Rothwell, 1840 (crop)
People connected to Mary Shelley
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William Godwin, father of Mary Shelley
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Mary Wollstonecraft, mother of Mary Shelley, pregnant with her
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Percy Bysshe Shelley by Curran, 1819
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William Shelley, one of her children with Percy Shelley
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Lauretta Tighe; Shelley wrote Maurice for Laurette when she was a child
Family Tree
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Birth of Mary Shelley recorded in William Godwin's journal
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Poem on Percy Shelley's death
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Draft of Frankenstein
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First page of Maurice manuscript
Illustrations & frontispiece of Shelley's Work
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Title page from Perkin Warbeck
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Title page from Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Mary Shelley
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Title page from the 1829 Keepsake
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Illustration from one of Shelley's stories for the Keepsake
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Title page from Mounseer Nongtontpaw
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Title page from Lodore
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Title page from The Last Man
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Title page from Rambles in Germany and Italy
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Title page from History of a Six Weeks' Tour
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First publication of Midas
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Title page from Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments edited by Mary Shelley
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Steel engraving for frontispiece to the revised edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, published by Colburn and Bentley, London 1831.
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Inside cover of "Frankenstein"; 1831.
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Title page from second volume of the pirated Philadelphia edition of "Lives of the Most Eminent French Writers"
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Weekes sculpture of Mary and Percy Shelley