Mary Shelley
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Shelley in posthumous portrait (Reginald Easton)About the author
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
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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