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.
Connections
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Reception | Mary Angela Dickens | Another Freak, also published in MAD
's collection Some Women's Ways, is reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Short Stories by Women (1998) alongside works by both well-known and obscure authors, including Maria Edgeworth
, Mary Shelley |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Fenton | Fenton sets out to paint a a familiar picture of the everyday occurrences, manners, and habits of life of persons undistinguished either by wealth or fame Fenton, Elizabeth. The Journal of Mrs. Fenton. Editor Lawrence, Sir Henry, Edward Arnold. 1-2 |
Textual Features | Sophia King | This novel about the genesis of evil is told in the first person by its wicked yet pitiable male narrator, presented as a man of strong intellect and strong feeling, whose first words are What... |
Textual Features | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
's selection, though, demonstrates a serious interest in women's literary and feminist history. Of the selections whose authors can be identified, almost half are women. Though Marguerite, Lady Blessington
, doyenne of the albums... |
Textual Features | Jane Loudon | This strikingly inventive and ingenious tale seems to owe a good deal to Mary Shelley
's Frankenstein (though Shelley receives no tribute in passing, as do R. B. Sheridan
, Byron
, and especially Scott |
Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | In another letter MEC
notes that she found the writing of Sara Coleridge
(her cousin) and Mary Shelley
intensely Englishwomanly. Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth. Gathered Leaves from the Prose of Mary E. Coleridge. Editor Sichel, Edith, Constable. 219 |
Textual Features | Barbara Hofland | BH
explains that she intends to vindicate the character of Richard III
(who in her view came back as Perkin Warbeck
) and expose Henry VII
as a villain. She used the British Museum
again... |
Textual Features | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
's letters regularly indulge in analysis of books. She comments on works by both men and women, in English and French, and her opinions shift a good deal with age. She reacted with horror... |
Textual Features | Maureen Duffy | MD
's protagonist here is a being created by experiment, half-man, half-gorilla, a person of two worlds, animal and human. Duffy, Maureen. That’s How It Was. Virago. x |
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. 88 Known both as La Belle Assemblée (which had first appeared in 1806 but had petered out) and... |
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 | Naomi Alderman | NA
writes frequently in the Guardian. For instance, in an article on the televising of Margaret Atwood
's The Handmaid's Tale she provides a sketch of utopian and dystopian fiction by women, from Margaret Cavendish |
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. prelims |
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 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | PBS
made (and Mary Shelley
transcribed) the first English translation of Plato
's Symposium to attempt even approximate honesty about its homosexual content. Gonda, Caroline. “<span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Lodore</span> and Fanny Derham’s Story”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, pp. 329-44. 337 |
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