Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is the author of Frankenstein, arguably the first work of "science fiction" per se, as opposed to fantasy. She was also the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, whose early feminist critique of lack of education for women in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was a significant influence on her.

Bibliography

• Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818; rev. 1831)
• The Last Man (novel; written 1824-26; published 1826) a science fiction novel that invented the post-apocalypse genre

• "Roger Dodsworth: The Reanimated Englishman" (1826 short story; published 1863)
• "Transformation" (1830 short story; published in The Keepsake, 1831)
• "The Mortal Immortal: A Tale" (1833 short story; published The Keepsake, 1834)
• The Dream (1831; published The Keepsake, 1832)
• "Valerius: The Reanimated Roman" (written -?; published 1976)
• The Invisible Girl (PDF at horrormasters.com)
• Proserpine and Midas: Two Unpublished Mythological Dramas (published 1922)
• Falkner (1837 semi-autobiographical Gothic novel)

• Valperga: The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (novel; written 1820-21; published 1823)
• The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (historical novel; published 1830)
• Lodore (1835 semi-autobiographical novel)
• Mathilda (written in 1819, but not published until 1959; novel about incest)
• Numerous other works

References

Biographies of Mary Shelley:

• Betty T. Bennett, Mary Shelley (1999)
• Martin Garrett, Mary Shelley (2002)
• Martin Garrett, A Mary Shelley Chronology (2002)
• William St. Clair, The Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Family (1989)
• Miranda Seymour, Mary Shelley (2000)
• Emily Sunstein, Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality (1989)