Mary Shelley
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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.
Often credited as the first science fiction novel, Shelley's Frankenstein dealt with such feminist themes as birth, men and technology versus nature. Shelley also wrote The Last Man (1826), the first post-holocaust novel.
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); 1824?
- "The Mortal Immortal: A Tale" (1833 short story; published The Keepsake, 1834)
- "The Dream" (1831; published The Keepsake, 1832)
- "Valerius: The Reanimated Roman" (written -1819?; 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- Proserpine and Midas: Two Unpublished Mythological Dramas (published 1922)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)
- Tales and Stories by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1891; 1975, Gregg Press)
- "The Brother and Sister" (1833)
- "Euphrasia" (1839)
- Numerous other works
References
Biographies of Mary Shelley:
- Pamela Clemit, Harriet Devine Jump, and Betty T. Bennett, Lives of the Great Romantics III: Godwin, Wollstonecraft, and Mary Shelley by Their Contemporaries (1999) (ISBN 1851965122)
- Betty T. Bennett, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: An Introduction (ISBN 0801859751)
- Martin Garrett, Mary Shelley (2002) (ISBN 0195217896)
- Martin Garrett, A Mary Shelley Chronology (2002) (ISBN 0333770501)
- William St. Clair, The Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Family (1989) (ISBN 0801842336)
- Miranda Seymour, Mary Shelley (2000) (ISBN 0802139485)
- Emily W. Sunstein, Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality (1989) (ISBN 0801842182)
Other references:
- Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran, editors, Mary Shelley in Her Times (2003) (ISBN 0801877334)
- Betty T. Bennett, editor, The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: 'Treading in unknown paths'" (1983) (ISBN 0801826454)
- Anne K. Mellor, Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters (1989) (ISBN 0415901472)
- Esther Schor, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley (2004) (ISBN 0521007704)