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Mary Shelley

Female : Novelist and poet. Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft & William Godwin. Met and eloped to the Continent with Percy B Shelley 1814 and they married in 1817, but Shelley drowned in 1822
Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1797 Date of Death : 1851 Age : 53
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus
Anon
ORIGINAL TEXT
(1818 Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones) - 3 vols
Offered in 1998 by one bookshop at £36,667 !
(1823 G & W B Whitaker. 2nd Ed) - 2 vols
(1833 Carey Lea & Blanchard) - 1st US Ed
(1865 Milner & Sowerby)
(1932 Illustrated Editions Co, US) - Nino Carbe
(1974 Bobbs Merrill) - edited by James Rieger
(1977 Clarkson N Potter, US)

REVISED TEXT
(1831 H Colburn & R Bentley) - 1st revised Edition
(1832 Colburn & Bentley. 2nd Impression)
(1839 R Bentley Standard Novels)
(1856 T Hodgson "Parlour Library")
(1882 Routledge)
(1880's/1890's Nicholson)
(1897 Gibbings)
(1912 Dent Everyman)
(1931 Grosset & Dunlap 'Film Edition')
(1932 Readers Library ) - with Boris Karloff d/w
(1934 Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, US) - Lynd Ward
(1934 : Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Everett Henry
(1969 OUP)
(1983 Pennyroyal Press, US) - Barry Moser
(1985 Penguin Classics)

FILMS
"Frankenstein"
(1931)
"The Bride of Frankenstein"
(1935)
"Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"
(1994)

Other Works
Mounseer Nontongpaw : A New Version
(1808 Baldwin Juvenile Library, London) - Wraps
History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany & Holland,
with Letters Descriptive of a Sail round the Lake of Geneva
and of the Glaciers of Chamoni
(1817 Hookham) - Anon with Percy B Shelley
Mathilde
(1819 Unfinished) (1959)
Valperga or, The Life & Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca
(1823 Whittaker, London) - 3 vols
The Last Man
(1826 Colburn) - 3 vols - Anon
(1833 Carey, Lea & Blanchard, Phila - 2 vols)
Offered in 1999 for 515
The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck : A Romance
(1830 Colburn & Bentley) - 3 vols. Anon
Lodore
(1835 Bentley) - 3 vols. Anon (1835 Wallis & Newell US)
Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain & Portugal
(1835-7 Longman) - et al. 3 vols
Falkner
(1837 Sanders & Otley) - 3 vols. Anon (1837 Harper)
Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of France
((1838-9 Longman) - 2 vols. et al
Rambles in Germany & Italy in 1840, 1842 & 1844
(1844 Moxon) - 2 vols
The Choice : A poem on Shelley's Death
(1876)
The Heir of Mondolfo
(1877)
Tales and Stories, now First Collected
(1891 Wm Paterson, London) - intro by Richard Garnett
The Romance of Mary W Shelley, John JHoward Payne & Washington Irving
(1907)
Letters
(mostly unpublished) (1918 Bibliophile Society, Boston) - 448. Edited by Henry H Harper
Prosperine and Midas : Two Unpublished Mythological Dramas
(1922)
The Letters : Collected & Edited by Frederick L Jones
(1946 Oklahoma UP) - 2 vols
Collected Tales and Stories
(1976 John Hopkins UP)

READING
Mrs Julian Marshall : The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(1889 Bentley, London) - 2 vols
Lucy Madox Rossetti : Mrs Shelley
(1890 W H Allen)
Richard Church : Mary Shelley
(1797-1851) (1928 Viking NY)
R Glynn Grylls : Mary Shelley - A Biography
(1938 OUP)
Muriel Spark : Child of Light - A Reassessment of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(1951 Tower Bridge)
Elizabeth Nitchie : Mary Shelley - Author of Frankenstein
(1953 Rutgers UP)
Eileen Bigland : Mary Shelley
(1959 Cassell)
William Walling : Mary Shelley
(1972 Twayne NY)
Donald Glut : The Frankenstein Legend
(1973 Scarecrow Press)
Noel B Gerson : Daughter of Earth & Water - A Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(1973 Morrow NY)
Margaret Leighton : Shelley's Mary - A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(1973 Farrar Straus Giroux)
Martin Tropp : Mary Shelley's Monster
(1977 Houghton Mifflin)
Donald Glut : The Frankenstein Catalog
(1984 McFarland & Co, US & UK £49.95)
Miranda Seymour : Mary Shelley
(2000 John Murray £25)

Related Writers

William Godwin
Washington Irving


See also

In Print 1994 Penguin Classics
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Muriel Sarah Spark