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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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.
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Textual Production Percy Bysshe Shelley
Peacock's essay had appeared the previous year in the short-lived periodical Olliers Literary Miscellany. Shelley's riposte remained unpublished until Mary Shelley edited his Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments in 1840.
Textual Production Percy Bysshe Shelley
When Percy Shelley discovered, and was deeply moved by, the story of Beatrice Cenci, he suggested to Mary Shelley that she should write a tragedy on the subject, but Mary was unwilling to do so.
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 Alice Meynell
She often used this column to address the works of literary women of the past. She judged Jane Austen inferior to Charlotte Brontë , accepting Brontë's opinion that Austen lacked what she, by implication, possessed:...
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...
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)...
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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