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Mary Shelley
Mary's mother died 11 days after giving birth to her. She was raised by her father, who provided her with a rich informal education, encouraging her to adhere to his own anarchist political theories. When she was four, her father married a neighbour, Mary Jane Clairmont, with whom Mary had a troubled relationship.
In 1814, Mary began a romance with one of her father's political followers, Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was already married. Together with her stepsister, Claire Clairmont, she and Percy left for France and travelled through Europe. Upon their return to England, Mary was pregnant with Percy's child. Over the next two years, she and Percy faced ostracism, constant debt and the death of their prematurely born daughter. They married in late 1816, after the suicide of Percy Shelley's wife, Harriet.
In 1816, the couple and Mary's stepsister famously spent a summer with Lord Byron and John William Polidori near Geneva, Switzerland, where Shelley conceived the idea for her novel ''Frankenstein''. The Shelleys left Britain in 1818 for Italy, where their second and third children died before Shelley gave birth to her last and only surviving child, Percy Florence Shelley. In 1822, her husband drowned when his sailboat sank during a storm near Viareggio. A year later, Shelley returned to England and from then on devoted herself to raising her son and her career as a professional author. The last decade of her life was dogged by illness, most likely caused by the brain tumour which killed her at the age of 53.
Until the 1970s, Shelley was known mainly for her efforts to publish her husband's works and for her novel ''Frankenstein'', which remains widely read and has inspired many theatrical and film adaptations. Recent scholarship has yielded a more comprehensive view of Shelley's achievements. Scholars have shown increasing interest in her literary output, particularly in her novels, which include the historical novels ''Valperga'' (1823) and ''Perkin Warbeck'' (1830), the apocalyptic novel ''The Last Man'' (1826) and her final two novels, ''Lodore'' (1835) and ''Falkner'' (1837). Studies of her lesser-known works, such as the travel book ''Rambles in Germany and Italy'' (1844) and the biographical articles for Dionysius Lardner's ''Cabinet Cyclopaedia'' (1829–1846), support the growing view that Shelley remained a political radical throughout her life. Shelley's works often argue that cooperation and sympathy, particularly as practised by women in the family, were the ways to reform civil society. This view was a direct challenge to the individualistic Romantic ethos promoted by Percy Shelley and the Enlightenment political theories articulated by her father, William Godwin.
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Histoire d'un voyage de six semaines by Shelley, Mary
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Mathilda by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
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The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
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Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
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Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
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Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
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Valperga Volume 1 (of 3) or, The life and adventures of Castruccio, prince of Lucca by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
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Valperga Volume 2 (of 3) or, The life and adventures of Castruccio, prince of Lucca by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
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Valperga Volume 3 (of 3) or, The life and adventures of Castruccio, prince of Lucca by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
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Falkner: A Novel by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
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Proserpine and Midas by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
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Lodore, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
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Lodore, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
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Lodore, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
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The Heir of Mondolfo by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
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The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: a romance by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
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Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
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History of a Six Weeks' Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland: With Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva, and of the Glaciers of Chamou... by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851; Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
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Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851; Lardner, Dionysius, 1793-1859 [Editor]
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Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851; Lardner, Dionysius, 1793-1859 [Editor]
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