Shelley, Mary (1797 - 1851)

Short name Shelley, Mary
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First name Mary
Birth name Wollstonecraft
Married name Shelley, Mary
Date of birth 1797
Date of death 1851
Flourishing -
Sex Female
Place of birth London
Place of death London
Lived in England
Place of residence notes
Richard Rothwell, portrait of Mary Shelley, 1840
Mother Wollstonecraft, Mary
Father Godwin, William
Children
Religion / ideology
Education
Aristocratic title -
Professional or ecclesiastical title -
Shelley, Mary was ...
related to Margaret King
family: non-household Clairmont, Claire
Profession(s)
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Place(s) of Residence England
Receptions of Shelley, Mary, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
Title Author Date Type
*Art. in Vaderlandse Letteroefeningen Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1839 None
Richard Rothwell, portrait of Mary Shelley, 1840 1840 is portrait of
*List of English women authors mentioned in Promenades dans Londres Tristan, Flora 1840 None
*Mention in Art. in De Gids Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack 1885 None
*Mention in Art. in De Gids Simon Vissering 1888 None
Mrs. Shelley Lucy Maddox Rossetti 1890 is biography of
*Mention in Art. in De Gids Bijvanck, W.G.C. 1892 None
Den sista Shelley The last Shelley Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1899 is biography of
Der Buchstabe "S" The Letter "S" Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1901 None
*No title Just Bing 1906 None
MENTIONED IN: - Pléiade, Dict. des littératures p.453 - Lettres européennes (Dutch version 1994) II, 773. - Vaessens, Geschiedenis van de moderne Nederlandse literatuur, 2013, p.124, 140 - Ahlbrand, Sheila. 1997. Author and Editor: Mary Shelley’s Private Writings and the Author Function of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Iconoclastic Departures: Mary Shelley after Frankenstein. Essays in Honor of the Bicentenary of Mary Shelley’s Birth. Eds. Syndy M. Conger, Frederick S. Frank and Gregory O’Dea. Cranbury, NJ; London; Missisauga, Ontario: Associated University Presses. 35-61. - Alexander, Meena. 1989. Women in Romanticism: Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley. Houndmills: Macmillan. - Allen, Graham. 2007. Mary Shelley as Elegiac Poet: “The Return” and “The Choice”. Romanticism 13 (3): 219-32. - Allen, Graham. 2008. Mary Shelley: Critical Issues. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. - Baldick, Chris. 1996. In Frankenstein’s Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing. Oxford: Clarendon Press. - Beer, John. 1999. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. A Companion to Romanticism. Ed. Duncan Wu. London: Blackwell Publishers. 227-36. - Behrendt, Stephen. 1995. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and the Woman Writer’s Fate. Romantic Women Writers: Voices and Countervoices. Eds. Paula R. Feldman and Theresa M. Kelley. University Press of New England. http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Articles/behrendt.html (accessed May 10, 2010). - Bennett, Betty T. 2003. Mary Shelley’s Letters: the Public/Private Self. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley. Ed. Esther Schor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 211-25. - Bennett, Betty T. 1996. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: An Introduction. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. - Bennett, Betty T., and Charles E. Robinson, eds. 1990. The Mary Shelley Reader. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. - Brailsford, H. N. 1949. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle. London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press. - Brewer, William Dean. 2001. The Mental Anatomies of William Godwin and Mary Shelley. Cranbury, NJ; London; Missisauga, Ontario: Associated University Presses. - Bunnell, Charlene E. 2002. All the World’s a Stage: Dramatic Sensibility in Mary Shelley’s Novels. New York: Routledge. - Cameron, Kenneth Neill, ed. 1970. Shelley and his Circle 1773-1822. Vols. III and IV. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. - Clairmont, Claire. 1970. Journal. Shelley and His Circle 1773-1822. Ed. K. N. Cameron. Vol. III. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 342-52. - Colbert, Benjamin. 1999. Contemporary Notice of the Shelleys’ History of Six Weeks’ Tour: Two Early Reviews. Keats-Shelley Journal 48: 22-29. - Conger, Syndy M., Frederick S. Frank, and Gregory O’Dea, eds. 1997. Iconoclastic Departures: Mary Shelley after Frankenstein. Essays in Honor of the Bicentenary of Mary Shelley’s Birth. Cranbury, NJ; London; Missisauga, Ontario: Associated University Presses. - Corbett, Mary Jean. 1993. Reading Mary Shelley’s Journals: Romantic Subjectivity and Feminist Criticism. The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein. Eds. Audrey A. Fisch, Anne K. Mellor, and Esther H. Schor. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 73-88. - Crook, Nora. 2000. Pecksie and the Elf: Did the Shelleys Couple Romantically? Romanticism on the Net. No. 18. http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2000/v/n18/005911ar.html (accessed June 7, 2010). - Feldman, Paula R., and Diana Scott-Kilvert. 1995. Introd. to The Journals of Mary Shelley 1814-1844. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. xv-xxiii. - Fisch, Audrey A., Anne K. Mellor, Esther H. Schor, eds. 1993. The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. - Forman, H. Buxton, ed. 1911. The Elopement of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin as Narrated by William Godwin. N.p.: privately printed. - Gittings, Robert, and Jo Manton. 1992. Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys 1798-1879. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. - Godwin, William. 1987. Memoirs of the Author of The Rights of Woman. Mary Wollstonecraft: A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, and William Godwin’s Memoirs of the Author of The Rights of Woman. Ed. Richard Holmes. London: Penguin. 201-77. - Hebron, Stephen, and Elizabeth C. Denlinger. 2010. Shelley’s Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family. Oxford: Bodleian Library Publishing. - Holmes, Richard. 1987. Introd. to A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark and William Godwin’s Memoirs of the Author of The Rights of Woman. By Mary Wollstonecraft. London: Penguin Books. - Homans, Margaret. 1995. Bearing Demons: Frankenstein’s Circumvention of the Maternal. Romanticism: A Critical Reader. Ed. Duncan Wu. London: Blackwell Publishers. 379-400. - Jones, Angela D. 1997a. Lying Near the Truth: Mary Shelley Performs the Private. Iconoclastic Departures: Mary Shelley after Frankenstein. Essays in Honor of the Bicentenary of Mary Shelley’s Birth. Eds. Syndy M. Conger, Frederick S. Frank, and Gregory O’Dea. Cranbury, NJ; London; Missisauga, Ontario: Associated University Presses. 19-34. - Jones, Frederick L. 1947. Preface to Mary Shelley’s Journals. Ed. Frederick L. Jones. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. vii-xvii. - Kessel, Marcel. 1951. The Mark of X in Claire Clairmont’s Journals. PMLA 66 (6): 1180-83. - Levine, George, and U. C. Knoepflmacher, eds. 1979. The Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley’s Novel. Berkeley and Los Angeles; London: University of California Press. - McEvoy, Emma. 2005. Groundless Metaphors and Living Maps in the Writing of Mary Shelley. Romanticism on the Net. No. 40. http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2005/v/n40/012464ar.html (accessed June 7, 2010). - Mellor, Anne K. 1988. The Female in Frankenstein. Romanticism and Feminism. Ed. Anne K. Mellor. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 220-32. - Mellor, Anne K. 1989. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. New York and London: Routledge. - Morrison, Lucy, and Staci Stone. 2003. A Mary Shelley Encyclopedia. Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press. - Morton, Timothy, ed. 2002. A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. London: Routledge. - Orr, Clarissa Campbell. 1998. Mary Shelley’s Rambles in Germany and Italy, the Celebrity Author, and the Undiscovered Country of the Human Heart. Romanticism on the Net. No. 11. http://www.erudit.org/revue/ ron/1998/v/n11/005813ar.html (accessed June 7, 2010). - Ożarska, Magdalena. 2011. Identity Problems of the Narrating I’s: Collaborative Writing and its Implications for the Early Journal of Mary Godwin (Later: Shelley) and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The New Review: An International Journal of British Studies 3: 49-58. - Ożarska, Magdalena. Lacework or Mirror? Diary Poetics of Frances Burney, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. Ożarska, Magdalena. Two Women Writers and their Italian Tours: Mary Shelley’s “Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842 and 1843” and Łucja Rautenstrauchowa’s “In and Beyond the Alps”. Mellen Press, 2013. - Poovey, Mary. 1985. The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. - Schor, Esther, ed. 2003. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. - Seymour, Miranda. 2000. Mary Shelley. London: John Murray. - Simons, Judy. 1990. Diaries and Journals of Literary Women from Fanny Burney to Virginia Woolf. London: Macmillan. - Spark, Muriel. 1987. Mary Shelley. New York and Scarborough, Ontario: New American Library. - Sunstein, Emily W. 1989. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. - Wollstonecraft, Mary. 2003. The Collected Letters. Ed. Janet Todd. London: Penguin Books. - Wollstonecraft, Mary. 1987. A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark and William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of The Rights of Woman. Ed. Richard Holmes. London: Penguin Books. - Wollstonecraft, Mary. 1994. Thoughts on the Education of Daughters: with Reflections on Female Conduct, in the more Important Duties of Life. Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions of Femininity. Ed. Vivien Jones. London and New York: Routledge. 110-12. - Wollstonecraft, Mary. 2004. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Ed. Miriam Brody. London: Penguin Books. In Russian: - Григорьева, Е. В. (2009). Романтический Апокалипсис: прозрения Мери Шелли. Научная мысль Кавказа, (1 (57)) (apocalyptic narratives in Shelley) - Струкова, Т. Г. (2010). Брайан Олдис: экскурс из XX века в романтизм. Мир романтизма, (15), 194-204 (reflections on the romantic narratives in Shelley´s works) - Саркисова, Н. М. (2004). Мэри Шелли. In История западноевропейской литературы. XIX век: Англия. СПб.; М. (Shelley in the history of Western European literature). - Жеребкина, И. (2001). Феминистская литературная критика (in Feminist Literary Criticism) - Напцок, Б. Р. (2012). Функции образа рассказчика Р. Уолтона в романе М. Шелли «Франкенштейн, или современный Прометей». Вестник Адыгейского государственного университета. (analysis of "Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus" )
Some of her works were prohibited in Austria; probably for political and religious reasons (Bachleitner 2000). Married to Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816, widowed in 1822. Five children, 1 survived to adulthood.