Wollstonecraft, Mary

Florescu explains the myths that inspired Mary Shelley to pen Frankenstein. Concentrating around the years 1814-6, Florescu examines magic, alchemy, Castle Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Shelley, and European history... 

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. 1818. Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. The 1818 Text. Edited by James Rieger. Chicago The University of Chicago Press, 1982. 

Percy Bysshe Shelley is considered one of the finest English poets and a major figure in the nineteenth-century Romantic movement. Born in 1792, Shelley was educated at Eton but was expelled from Oxford University for writing a pamphlet on atheism. Shelley married Mary Wollstonecraft (later famous for her novel Frankenstein) and traveled in... 

Woof, R. Hebron, S. Tomalin, C. 1997, Hyenas in Petticoats Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere. 

The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft edited by Claudia L. Johnson... 

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