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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1797–1851
Best known for creating Frankenstein, she turned a ghost-story challenge into one of literature’s most lasting and influential novels. Her life was shaped by radical ideas, personal loss, and a remarkable literary circle, and all of that energy runs through her work.
28 Audiobooks
Valperga Volume 3 (of 3) or, The life and adventures of Castruccio, prince of Lucca
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Valperga Volume 2 (of 3) or, The life and adventures of Castruccio, prince of Lucca
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Valperga Volume 1 (of 3) or, The life and adventures of Castruccio, prince of Lucca
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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 Chamouni.
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Last Man
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein, ou le Prométhée moderne Volume 2 (of 3)
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Tales and Stories Now First Collected
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein, ou le Prométhée moderne Volume 3 (of 3)
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein, ou le Prométhée moderne Volume 1 (of 3)
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mathilda
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 2 (of 2)
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Falkner: A Novel
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Proserpine and Midas
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Vol. 3 (of 3)
by James Montgomery, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Heir of Mondolfo
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Vol. 1 (of 3)
by James Montgomery, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 1 (of 2)
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: a romance
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Lodore, Vol. 1 (of 3)
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Vol. 2 (of 3)
by James Montgomery, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Lodore, Vol. 2 (of 3)
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Lodore, Vol. 3 (of 3)
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843, vol. 2 of 2
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843, vol. 1 of 2
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
About the author
Born in London in 1797, she was the daughter of two major thinkers: writer and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft and philosopher William Godwin. She grew up in an intellectually lively world and later became part of the Romantic circle through her relationship with Percy Bysshe Shelley.
She is most famous for Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818 and widely regarded as an early landmark of science fiction as well as a classic Gothic novel. But her writing life was broader than that: she also wrote novels, short stories, travel writing, biographies, and essays.
After Percy Shelley's death, she worked to preserve and promote his writing while continuing her own literary career. She died in London in 1851, but her reputation has only grown, with Frankenstein remaining one of the most widely read and adapted stories in modern culture.