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Mary Shelley

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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British writer (1797–1851)

Born 30 August 1797
Died 1 February 1851

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    First published in 1994 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus by Lynd Ward Mary Shelley Hardcover

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British writer (1797–1851)

Born 30 August 1797
Died 1 February 1851
Subjects
Fiction, Fiction, horror, Frankenstein (fictitious character), fiction, Monsters, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Children's fiction, Scientists, English Authors, Horror stories, Fiction, general, English literature, Biography, Fiction, science fiction, general, Horror tales, Scientists, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Victor Frankenstein (Fictitious character), Correspondence, Frankenstein's monster (Fictitious character), Monsters, fiction, short stories, English Horror tales, Diaries, Drama, Frankenstein (Fictitious character)
Places
England, Italy, Araby, Araby bazaar, Geneva (Switzerland), North Richmond Street, Europe, Germany, London, Lucerne, Oxford, Toledo, Archangel, Buenos Aires, Devon, Florida, Fountain of Youth, Geneva, Grande-Bretagne, Great Britain, Jefferson, Lucca (Italy), Massachusetts, Memphis, Mississippi
People
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Victor Frankenstein (Fictitious character), Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character), Mangan's sister, Castruccio Castracani (1281-1328), Ethelred, Father Time, Madeline Usher, Roderick Usher, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Alfred Doolittle, Berenice, Colonel Killigrew, Colonel Pickering, Colonel Sartoris, Devil, Dr. Heidegger, Egaeus, Eliza Doolittle, Emily Grierson, Ernest Valdemar, Ezra Buckley, F. B. Sanborn (1831-1917), Faith Brown
Time
19th century, 1268-1492, 1485-1509 (Henri VII), 14th century, 1600s, 1700s, 17th century, 1912, 1935-1947, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1947, 21st Century, Antebellum era, Carnival, Henry VII, 1485-1509

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  • Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
  • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • Mary W. Shelley
  • Mary Godwin Shelley

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May 15, 2024 Edited by bitnapper Edited without comment.
May 15, 2024 Edited by bitnapper merge authors
April 29, 2024 Edited by Gustav-Landauer-Bibliothek Witten remove inventaire.io
September 7, 2023 Edited by Tom Morris Remove bad AKAs
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import