Mary Shelley

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Standard Name: Shelley, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Married Name: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Pseudonym: Mary S.
Pseudonym: Mrs Caroline Barnard
MS , long known almost exclusively for Frankenstein, is now being read for her later novels and her plays, as well as for her journals and letters. Her editing, reviewing, biographical, and journalistic work entitle her to the designation woman of letters. She is an important figure among women Romantics, and a channel for the reformist ideals of the 1790s forwards into the Victorian era.
Half-length painting of Mary Shelley by Richard Rothwell, exhibited 1840. She sits on a red-draped couch, gazing serenely forward, wearing a black dress that leaves her shoulders bare. She has a gold waistband and gold band in her hair. A vertical streak of light on the right is thought by some to represent the spirit of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. National Portrait Gallery.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Caroline Norton
In 1832 CN began editing the newly-launched La Belle Assemblée; or, Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine.
Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
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Known both as La Belle Assemblée (which had first appeared in 1806 but had petered out) and...
Textual Production Percy Bysshe Shelley
This treatment of the legend of Psyche reflects his platonic love for Emilia Viviani , a teenage girl who was unwillingly an inmate of a convent. Mary Shelley is relegated to the secondary role of...
Textual Production Dorothy L. Sayers
Between 1928 and 1934, DLS edited three volumes under the series title Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror. Her introductions to these collections offered a scholarly history of the genre of detective...
Textual Production Jeanette Winterson
JW alluded to Mary Shelley in the title of her next novel, Frankissstein, a realistic horror story touching on several contemporary interfaces between life and death, the living obdy, dead body, and functioning substitute body.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Textual Production Eleanor Anne Porden
EAP claimed that for some years my mind has dwelt with peculiar interest on the possibility of reaching the Pole.
Porden, Eleanor Anne. The Arctic Expeditions. John Murray, 1818.
prelims
The catalyst for her writing was her visit to see the ships. The Arctic...
Textual Production Emma Tennant
For Felony: The Private History of The Aspern Papers: A Novel, ET used Henry James 's friendship with Constance Fenimore Woolson , and Mary Shelley 's stepsister Claire Clairmont as source for his novel.
“Emma Tennant”. Fantastic Fiction.
Textual Production Muriel Spark
MS published her first solo book, the biographical study Child of Light: A Reassessment of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press, 1992.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Helen Dunmore
The title poem pictures a man skating on a pond; he has the air, though, of a long-distance rather than a pleasure skater, and the poem imagines him going on forever, mounting the crusted waves...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Liz Lochhead
The title poem meditates on Mary Shelley 's creation of her novel Frankenstein (Eyes on those high peaks / . . . [she] sat down to quill and ink / and icy paper)...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ella D'Arcy
Maurois shamelessly fictionalizes and romanticises Shelley; he is more interested in the life than the works, and the same is of course true of his treatment of Mary Shelley , who begins as a beautiful...
Travel Germaine de Staël
Napoleon's escape from Elba sent her back from Paris to Coppet. She was there as Mary Shelley was writing Frankenstein on the other side of Lake Geneva. Not until late 1816 did she return...
Wealth and Poverty Elizabeth Inchbald
Mary Shelley made some interesting comments on her attitudes to money. According to Shelley EI 's life was . . . spent in an interchange of hardship and amusement, privation and luxury, and her character...

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