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Selected letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Selected letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley reveal a remarkable woman living in a remarkable age. They date from October 1814--shortly after her elopement with Percy Bysshe Shelley--through September 1850, five months before her death.
The Last Man

The Last Man

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. CHAPTER IV. . THE next day Lord Raymond called at Perdita's cottage, on his way to Windsor Castle. My sister's heightened color and sparkling eyes half revealed her secret to me. He was perfectly ...
Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives

Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives

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This volume brings together essays on Wollstonecraft’s and Shelley’s life writing by some of the most prominent scholars in Canada, Australia, and the United States.
Iconoclastic Departures: Mary Shelley After Frankenstein : ...

Iconoclastic Departures: Mary Shelley After Frankenstein : ...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It seems significant to the contributors to this volume that this new, radical Mary Shelley was not invented by a pointed call for papers but emerged spontaneously from an open invitation to scholars working in various corners of the ...
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein, or, The modern ...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein, or, The modern ...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

New to this Edition is Frankentalk, a section of selected references to Frankenstein in the popular press, and the complete text of Richard Brinsley Peake’s Frankenstein, A Romantic Drama, the first stage version of Frankenstein.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: A Dark Graphic Novel

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: A Dark Graphic Novel

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A graphic novel adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic tale of a monster, assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies, who develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
Lives of the Great Romantics III: Mary Wollstonecraft

Lives of the Great Romantics III: Mary Wollstonecraft

Betty T. Bennett

This volume sheds light on contemporary perception of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, a biographically and intellectually compelling literary family of the Romantic period.
Romantic Revisions

Romantic Revisions

Robert Brinkley

FINDING MARY SHELLEY IN HER LETTERS BETTY T. BENNETT WHEN the first volume of my edition of The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was published in 1980, one reviewer suggested that Mary Shelley's letters were not worth ...
Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822

Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822

Carl H. Pforzheimer Library

... religious, and political topics, see (among Wollstonecraft's other biographers) Eleanor L. Nicholes, "Mary Wollstonecraft," Shelley and his Circle, I, 56-58; see also DA'S and David Oswald Thomas, The Honest Mind: The Thought and Work of ...
Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

This critical edition of Mary Shelley's controversial classic of gothic romanticism includes new critical essays by some of the leading lights in contemporary literary scholarship.
Frankenstein: The Elt Graphic Novel

Frankenstein: The Elt Graphic Novel

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Presents an adaptation of Shelley's story of a scientist who creates life with unintended consequences.
The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley

The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley

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Lincoln:Universityof Nebraska Press, 1993 The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Betty T. Bennett (ed.), 3 vols., Baltimore:Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980– 83 Lives of theMost EminentLiterary and Scientific Men ofFrance, 2 vols., ...
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Presents a collection of critical essays about the works of the British author, focusing on her famous novel, Frankenstein.
Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
Frankenstein or The modern Prometheus

Frankenstein or The modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus

Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Presents the story of Dr. Frankenstein and his obsessive experiment that leads to the creation of a monstrous and deadly creature.
Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe ...

Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe ...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe (1839) is a remarkable collection by the romantic poet, Shelley, who wrote more than a thousand pages of poetry over his career.
Mary Shelley: The Ultimate Collection (All 7 Novels ...

Mary Shelley: The Ultimate Collection (All 7 Novels ...

Mary Shelley

Preface By Mrs. Shelley To The Volume Of Posthumous Poems Published In 1824 Note OnQueen Mab, By Mrs.Shelley. Note On "Alastor", By Mrs. Shelley. Note OnThe "Revolt Of Islam", By Mrs. Shelley. Note OnRosalind And HelenByMrs.
Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

Barbara Taylor

Drawing on all of Wollstonecraft's works, this 2003 book provides a compelling portrait of this profoundly influential thinker.
Mathilda

Mathilda

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide.
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life

Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life

Janet Todd

Since the first publication of Mary Wollstonecraft: A revolutionary Life in 2000, further historical evidence has been discovered – a letter to Count Bernsdorf in 1795 – and Janet Todd has revised this 2014 Bloomsbury Reader edition of ...
Mary Shelley: 'Frankenstein'

Mary Shelley: 'Frankenstein'

Essaka Joshua

Places Mary Shelley's revolutionary novel in its political, philosophical and literary context.

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