Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley was a British author and editor during the Romantic Period.

Mary Shelley was encouraged toward a literary life by her father and by her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was raised among books and received an informal education that surpassed what most women of her era could expect. Shelley wrote her first novel Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus while staying with her future husband Percy Shelly, their son William, Lord George Gordon Byron and Byron's physician John Polidori on Lake Geneva. While this has been her most enduring work, Shelley was a well-known writer during her lifetime, and completed three other novels, numerous short stories, essays, and travelogues.

• Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (1818)
• Valperga (1823)
• The Last Man (1826)
• Perkin Warbeck (1830)

Mary Shelley's mother, who died when Shelley was an infant, was Mary Wollstonecraft, a thinker and writer who advocated social change and equality. She wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Man, and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; she is sometimes considered to be an early feminist. Mary Shelley's father, William Godwin, was an extremely influential novelist and political thinker of his time, and served as somewhat of a mentor to Percy Shelley.

• August 30, 1797: Born in London, England

• 1814: Elopes with Percy Bysshe Shelley to France

• 1816: Begins writing Frankenstein

• 1817: Completes Frankenstein

• 1818: Publishes Frankenstein

• 1820: Proserpine and Midas

• 1822: Percy Bysshe Shelley dies

• 1823: Valperga: Or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca

• 1826: The Last Man

• 1830: The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, A Romance

• 1833: The Mortal Immortal

• 1837: Falkner: A Novel

• February 1, 1851: Died Bournemouth, England

• IMDb: Mary Shelley Filmography

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• 1910: Frankenstein

• 1935: Bride of Frankenstein

• 1939: Son of Frankenstein

• 1970: The Horrors of Frankenstein

• 1974: Young Frankenstein

• 1994: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

• 2007: The Last Man