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
Related to Margaret King , Claire Clairmont
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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" )
Provisional Notes 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.
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