Mary Shelley

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository

Jump to: navigation, search

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.

[edit] Portraits

Mary Shelley, by Reginald Easton (1820) (color)
Mary Shelley, by Reginald Easton (1820) (B&W)
Mary Shelley, by Richard Rothwell, 1840 (his-res)
Mary Shelley, by Richard Rothwell, 1840 (low-res)

[edit] People connected to Mary Shelley

William Godwin, father of Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft, mother of Mary Shelley, pregnant with her
Mary Wollstonecraft
Percy Bysshe Shelley by Curran, 1819
William Shelley, one of her children with Percy Shelley
Lauretta Tighe; Shelley wrote Maurice for Laurette when she was a child

[edit] Family Tree

[edit] Manuscript

Birth of Mary Shelley recorded in William Godwin's journal
Poem on Percy Shelley's death
Draft of Frankenstein
First page of Maurice manuscript

[edit] Illustrations & frontispiece of Shelley's Work

Title page from Perkin Warbeck
Title page from Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Mary Shelley
Title page from the 1829 Keepsake
Illustration from one of Shelley's stories for the Keepsake
Title page from Mounseer Nongtontpaw
Title page from Lodore
Title page from The Last Man
Title page from Rambles in Germany and Italy
Title page from History of a Six Weeks' Tour
First publication of Midas
Title page from Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments edited by Mary Shelley
Steel engraving for frontispiece to the revised edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, published by Colburn and Bentley, London 1831.
Inside cover of "Frankenstein"; 1831.
Title page from second volume of the pirated Philadelphia edition of "Lives of the Most Eminent French Writers"