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Autor: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and feminist activist Mary Wollstonecraft.

The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Autor: Julian Marshall

Número de Páginas: 336

The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley II

Autor: Florence A. Thomas Marshall

Número de Páginas: 378

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. After Wollstonecraft's death less than a month after her daughter Mary was born, Mary was raised by Godwin, who was able to provide his daughter with a rich, if informal, education, encouraging her to adhere to his own liberal political theories. When Mary was four, her father married a neighbour, with whom, as her stepmother, Mary came to have a troubled relationship.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Collection Novels

Autor: Mary Wollstonecraft , Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Número de Páginas: 364

Mary Shelley Wollstonecraft (1797 - 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823. In this book: Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus The last Man Mathilda Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Best Novels

Autor: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Número de Páginas: 400

Mary Shelley Wollstonecraft (1797 - 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823. In this book: Frankenstein The last Man Mathilda

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Autor: Helen Moore

Número de Páginas: 356

The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Autor: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Número de Páginas: 536

Mary Shelley's Journal

Autor: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Número de Páginas: 312

Mary Shelley - Mathilda

Autor: Mary Shelley

Número de Páginas: 100

Narrating from her deathbed, Matilda tells the story of her unnamed father's confession of incestuous love for her, followed by his suicide by drowning; her relationship with a gifted young poet called Woodville fails to reverse Matilda's emotional withdrawal or prevent her lonely death.

Mathilda

Autor: Mary Shelley

Número de Páginas: 144

Of all the novels and stories which Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley left in manuscript, [1] only one novelette, Mathilda, is complete. It exists in both rough draft and final copy. In this story, as in all Mary Shelley's writing, there is much that is autobiographical: it would be hard to find a more self-revealing work. For an understanding of Mary's character, especially as she saw herself, and of her attitude toward Shelley and toward Godwin in 1819, this tale is an important document. Although the main narrative, that of the father's incestuous love for his daughter, his suicide, and Mathilda's consequent withdrawal from society to a lonely heath, is not in any real sense autobiographical, many elements in it are drawn from reality. The three main characters are clearly Mary herself, Godwin, and Shelley, and their relations can easily be reassorted to correspond with actuality. Highly personal as the story was, Mary Shelley hoped that it would be published, evidently believing that the characters and the situations were sufficiently disguised. In May of 1820 she sent it to England by her friends, the Gisbornes, with a request that her father would arrange for its publication.

Child of Light

Autor: Muriel Spark

Número de Páginas: 260

Mathilda

Autor: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Número de Páginas: 94

Mathilda - By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Edited By Elizabeth Nitchie. Mathilda, or Matilda, is the second novel of Mary Shelley, written between August 1819 and February 1820. It deals with common Romantic themes of incest and suicide. The act of writing this short novel distracted Mary Shelley from her grief after the deaths of her one-year-old daughter Clara at Venice in September 1818 and her three-year-old son William in June 1819 in Rome. These losses plunged Mary Shelley into a depression that distanced her emotionally and sexually from Percy Shelley and left her, as he put it, "on the hearth of pale despair". Commentators have often read the text as autobiographical, the three central characters standing for William Godwin, Mary Shelley, and Percy Shelley. There is no firm evidence, however, that the storyline itself is autobiographical. Analysis of Matilda's first draft, titled "The Fields of Fancy", reveals that Mary Shelley took as her starting point Mary Wollstonecraft's unfinished "The Cave of Fancy", in which a small girl's mother dies in a shipwreck. Like Mary Shelley herself, Matilda idealises her lost mother. According to editor Janet Todd, the absence of the...

Letters of Mary W. Shelley (mostly Unpublished)

Autor: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Número de Páginas: 204

The Life & Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Autor: Mrs. Julian Marshall

Número de Páginas: 344

The Heir of Mondolfo

Autor: Mary Shelley

Número de Páginas: 34

The Heir of Mondolfo by Mary Shelley Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, often known as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer, and editor of the works of her husband, Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was the daughter of the political philosopher William Godwin and the writer, philosopher, and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary Shelley was taken seriously as a writer in her own lifetime, though reviewers often missed the political edge to her novels. After her death, however, she was chiefly remembered only as the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley and as the author of Frankenstein. It was not until 1989, when Emily Sunstein published her prizewinning biography Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality, that a full-length scholarly biography analyzing all of Shelley's letters, journals, and works within their historical context was published. The well-meaning attempts of Mary Shelley's son and daughter-in-law to "Victorianise" her memory through the censoring of letters and biographical material contributed to a perception of Mary Shelley as a more conventional, less reformist...

Mary Shelley: The Complete Novels (The Giants of Literature - Book 27)

Autor: Mary Shelley

Número de Páginas: 2673

E-artnow presents to you the greatest novels by one of the greatest novelists of English literature: Frankenstein (Original Edition, 1818) Frankenstein (Revised Edition, 1831) The Last Man Valperga The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck Lodore Falkner This edition includes additionally the biography of the author - "The Life & Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley" by Florence Ashton Marshall Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary Shelley's works often argue that cooperation and sympathy, particularly as practiced by women in the family, were the ways to reform civil society. This view was a direct challenge to the individualistic Romantic ethos promoted by Percy Shelley and Enlightenment political theories.

The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844: 1814-1822

Autor: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , Percy Bysshe Shelley

Número de Páginas: 494

In Paris during the summer of 1814, two lovers, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, began a chronicle of their life together, starting with an account of the day they eloped to France. These journals--kept during the early years by both of them and then, after their marriage, mostly by Mary alone--are an essential source of information about the lives, both individually and together, of two major British literary figures. This critical edition, the first to be faithful to the manuscript, presents the full text of all surviving journal entries and provides extensive biographical commentary drawn from unpublished as well as published sources.

Mary Shelley

Autor: Anne Kostelanetz Mellor

Número de Páginas: 275

Traces the life of Mary Shelley, describes her relationship with her husband and fellow writers, and discusses her major writings

Romantic Outlaws

Autor: Charlotte Gordon

Número de Páginas: 674

***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4*** NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER 'A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history's most formidable female intellectuals, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Gordon has reunited mother and daughter through biography, beautifully weaving their narratives for the first time.' Amanda Foreman English feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and author Mary Shelley were mother and daughter, yet these two extraordinary women never knew one another. Nevertheless, their passionate and pioneering lives remained closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies eerily similar. Both women became famous writers and wrote books that changed literary history, had passionate relationships with several men, were single mothers out of wedlock; both lived in exile, fought for their position in society, and interrogated ideas of how we should live. Romantic Outlaws takes the reader on a vivid journey across revolutionary France and Victorian England to explore in this ground-breaking dual biography of the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the author who wrote Frankenstein - mother and daughter - a pair of visionary women, who...

The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Autor: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Número de Páginas: 120

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Volume II

Autor: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Número de Páginas: 74

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2)

Autor: Florence A. Thomas Marshall

Número de Páginas: 237

Reproduction of the original: The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall

Mary Shelley - The Invisible Girl

Autor: Mary Shelley

Número de Páginas: 34

Story itself is very simple & familiar: rich widowed man adopts an orphaned girl & raises her with his own son. Girl & boy fall in love. Dad disapproves. Lot of tears. Eventually, happy ending.

Mathilda

Autor: Mary Shelly

Número de Páginas: 166

Mary Shelley (nee Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, often known as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer, and editor of the works of her husband, Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was the daughter of the political philosopher William Godwin and the writer, philosopher, and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary Shelley was taken seriously as a writer in her own lifetime, though reviewers often missed the political edge to her novels. After her death, however, she was chiefly remembered only as the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley and as the author of Frankenstein. It was not until 1989, when Emily Sunstein published her prizewinning biography Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality, that a full-length scholarly biography analyzing all of Shelley's letters, journals, and works within their historical context was published. The well-meaning attempts of Mary Shelley's son and daughter-in-law to "Victorianise" her memory through the censoring of letters and biographical material contributed to a perception of Mary Shelley as a more conventional, less reformist figure than her works suggest. Her own...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Selections

Autor: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Número de Páginas: 642

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1817) and the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, came from a family of William Goodwin - anarchist philosopher, writer and atheist dissenter. This volume introduces our readers to other important and innovative works of Mary Shelley, her science fiction book The Last Man with is apocalyptic overtones, a short novel Mathilda, an autobiographical approach to the issue of incest, and two plays.

Selected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Autor: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Número de Páginas: 456

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. Her correspondents' names are familiar - Shelley himself, Byron, Bulwer-Lytton, Disraeli, General Lafayette, Sir Walter Scott - and the letters abound with anecdotes about such eminent figures as her parents (William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft), Keats, Washington Irving, and Charles and Mary Lamb. Publication of the widely acclaimed three-volume edition of Mary Shelley's letters was completed in 1988, containing all 1,276 of her known extant letters. Now Betty T. Bennett has selected 230 of those letters to give an overview of Mary Shelley's life as she was seeing it, living it, and recording it. Bennett also includes an introductory essay that sketches a portrait of Mary Shelley, her world, and her place in the history of literature and letters.

The Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley Vol 4

Autor: Nora Crook , Pamela Clemit , Betty T Bennett

Número de Páginas: 358

These eight volumes contain the works of Mary Shelley and include introductions and prefatory notes to each volume. Included in this edition are "Frankenstein" (1818), "Matilda" ((1819), "Valperga" (1823), "The Last Man" (1826), "Perkin Warbeck" (1830) and "Lodore" (1835).

My Best Mary

Autor: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Número de Páginas: 252

The Mary Shelley Reader

Autor: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Número de Páginas: 420

Renewed interest in the life and works of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley has in recent years generated new biographical studies, complete editions of her letters and short stories and journals, and fresh critical assessments of "Frankenstein" and her other fiction. Until now, however, there has been no anthology of her work. "The Mary Shelley Reader" is a unique collection that fills this gap. In addition to the original and complete 1818 version of her masterpiece "Frankenstein," the book offers a new text of Mary Shelley's novella "Mathilda" - an extraordinary tale of incest, guilt, and atonement that was not published until 1959 and has been out of print since then. Also included are seven of Mary Shelley's Short stories that range from gentle satire to fantastic tales of reanimation, diabolical transformation, and immortality. Eight of her essays and reviews are reprinted here for the first time since their original publication, and eleven representative letters help bring to life a remarkable literary and historical figure - author, daugher of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley. An illuminating introduction, a chronology, explanatory notes,...

The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Volume 1)

Autor: Mary Shelley

Número de Páginas: 206

The first volume of Shelley's letters introduces us to her personality and thoughts, and offers an intimate look into the English literary world as it stood at the beginning of the 19th century. It is through her voluminous letters and correspondences that we gain an intimate insight into Shelley's mental processes, opinions and outlook on life. Attempts were made by Shelley's son to censor and tone down her stark attitudes, so that she may be better accepted into the Victorian culture which fostered and grew her reputation. These letters are however produced without abridgment, allowing the reader a glimpse into the thoughts of one of the era's finest literary women. Revered as the author of the timeless horror novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley would privately express frustrations at this single book eclipsing her other efforts in both fiction and non-fiction. She also possessed political views which she made pains to express via her written works, and was dismayed that most leading critics of the day either ignored or simply missed these references in her fiction. Although the odds were stacked against Mary Shelley from her earliest years simply because of her gender - a fact...

Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Scholar's Choice Edition

Autor: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Número de Páginas: 322

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The Mourner and Other Stories

Autor: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Número de Páginas: 52

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (nee Godwin) (1797-1851) was an English romantic gothic novelist. She received an excellent education, which was unusual for girls at the time. She never went to school, but she was taught to read and write by Louisa Jones, and then educated in a broad range of subjects by her father, who gave her free access to his extensive library. In particular, she was encouraged to write stories, and one of these early works Mounseer Nongtongpaw was published by the Godwin Company s Juvenile Library when she was only eleven. One night, perhaps attributable to Galvani s report, Mary had a waking dream; she recounted the episode in this way: What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow. This nightmare served as the basis for the novel that she entitled Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). Amongst her other works are: The Last Man (1826), Proserpine and Midas (1832) and Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

The Heir of Mondolfo Illustrated

Autor: Mary Shelley

Número de Páginas: 44

As Ludovico rode along, and the first emotions of pity having, as it were, ceased to throb in his mind, these feelings merged into the strain of thought in which he habitually indulged, and turned its .

Tales and Stories

Autor: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Número de Páginas: 236

Shelley (nee Godwin, 1797-1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biogapher and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel 'Frankenstein' (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Many of Shelley's short stories were written specifically for inclusion in gift books or annuals, including 'The Keepsake', and they often have foreign settings such as Greece or Italy and are predominantly historical. This collection was first published together in 1891 with an introduction by the Keeper of Printed Books at the Brirish Museum.

The Life & Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Autor: Julian Marshall