Mary Shelley
Born 30 August 1797 · Died 1 February 1851
From Somers Town, England, United Kingdom · Nationality: United Kingdom, Kingdom of Great Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · Writes fiction and nonfiction
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.
Quotes
“At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person — all my old friends are gone ... & my heart fails when I think by how few ties I hold to the world....”
Journal 15 May 1824 “We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves — such a friend ought to be — do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.”
Frankenstein, Letter 4 “What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.”
Introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein “My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.”
Frankenstein, Chapter 15 “My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.”
Frankenstein, Chapter 24
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Books by Mary Shelley in order
Books by Mary Shelley in the order they were published, from Frankenstein (1818) to Frankestein (2022).
- 1Frankenstein
Frankenstein1818 - 2Valperga
Valperga1823 - 3The Last Man
The Last Man1826 - 4The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck
The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck1830 - 5Lodore
Lodore1835 - 6Falkner
Falkner1837 - 7Gris Grimly's FrankensteinGris Grimly's Frankenstein2013
- 8Invisible GirlInvisible Girl2014
- 9Mary and Maria - Matilda
Mary and Maria - Matilda2016 - 10Frankenstein o el moderno prometeo
Frankenstein o el moderno prometeo2018 - 11FrankenstienFrankenstien2018
- 12Frankenstein AnnotatedFrankenstein Annotated2020
- 13Frankenstein Mary ShellyFrankenstein Mary Shelly2022
- 14Frankestein
Frankestein2022 - 15Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein
Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein - 16Mathilda
Mathilda - 17Proserpine & Midas
Proserpine & Midas - 18The Journals of Mary Shelley
The Journals of Mary Shelley - 19The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley