Mary Shelley

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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

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[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"