Mary Shelley (30. ágúst 17971. febrúar 1851) var enskur rithöfundur sem er einkum þekkt fyrir vísindaskáldsöguna Frankenstein (Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus). Hún var dóttir femínistans Mary Wollstonecraft og stjórnleysingjans William Godwin. Hún giftist enska rómantíska skáldinu Percy Bysshe Shelley sem drukknaði eftir sex ára hjónaband.

Mary Shelley
Málverk af Mary Shelley eftir Richard Rothwell frá 1840.
Fædd
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

30. ágúst 1797(1797-08-30)
Dáin1. febrúar 1851 (53 ára)
Chester Square, London, England
StörfRithöfundur
Þekkt fyrirFrankenstein
MakiPercy Bysshe Shelley
ForeldrarMary Wollstonecraft og William Godwin


Valin verk

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  • 1817 – History of a Six Weeks' Tour
  • 1818 – Frankenstein
  • 1819 – Mathilda
  • 1823 – Valperga; or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca
  • 1824 – Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • 1826 – The Last Man
  • 1830 – The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck
  • 1835 – Lodore
  • 1837 – Falkner
  • 1839 – The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • 1835-39 – Contributions to Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men, part of Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia
  • 1844 – Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843

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