Mary Shelley

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Mary Shelley picShelley in posthumous portrait (Reginald Easton)

About the author

Mary Shelley
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Born
London, 1797

Died
London, 1851

Places lived
London and Marlow, England; Dundee, Scotland; Geneva, Switzerland; Naples, Rome and Genoa, Italy

Forms of writing
Novels, stories, essays

Genres
Literary, horror, romance, science fiction, apocalyptic fiction, historical fiction, philosophical fiction, biography, travel

Writing language
English

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Literature

• Frankenstein (1818)

Novels

• Frankenstein (1818)

British Literature

• Frankenstein (1818)

Science Fiction

• Frankenstein (1818)

Horror

• Frankenstein (1818)

Works published in book form

History of a Six Weeks' Tour, nonfiction, 1817, with Percy Bysshe Shelley

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus, novel, 1818, revised until 1831

Valperga: Or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca, novel, 1823

The Last Man, novel, 1826

TThe Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, A Romance, novel, 1830

Lodore, novel, 1835

Falkner, novel, 1837

Biographical essays contributed to Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men, ed. Dionysius Lardner, nonfiction, 1829–1846,

Rambles in Germany and Italy, nonfiction, 1844

Mathilda, novella, 1959, written in 1819–1820

 

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