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30 August 1797–1 February 1851
Also known as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Mary W. Shelley, Mary Godwin Shelley, mary shelley, Shelley Mary
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. (Source.)
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Readers in conversation
Public notes, reviews, lists, and conversations around Mary Shelley.
i can't remember how many summers ago it was that i read and wrote to an internet stranger on his wonderful--and thoroughly obscure--essay on monstrosity. in it, he considered (this is the vaguest of recollections) the question of how to create a monster; and…
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A reader-curated list
My brother in Christ, you chose the body parts. Mild spoilers I'm not sure reading this book alone is enough for me to understand MSSOM's mind. No doubt it suffers from being the origin of so many tropes and traditions. Reading it for the first time in 2025,…
