Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley [née Godwin]

(1797-1851)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 NRA: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851), author DNB: Shelley [née Godwin], Mary Wollstonecraft (1797–1851), writer LBT ID: MaShell1851 VIAF ID: 6293 LOC ID: n79061063	B/BAP: 1797-08-30 DIED: 1851-02-01
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; thePeerage.com; LOC Name Authority File
English novelist, daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecaft, and the second wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley. She is the author of Frankenstein (1818) and The Last Man (1835) and the editor of Shelley's works (1839-40).
REFERENCES TO Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley [née Godwin]: Eliza Fenwick to Everina Wollstonecraft, 12 September 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 5 William Nicholson to William Godwin, 18 September 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Ann Hull Godwin to William Godwin, [1798] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 John Arnot to William Godwin, 8 December 1798 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Thomas Holcroft to William Godwin, 24 January 1800 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 5 Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Godwin, 21 May 1800 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 5 William Godwin to James Marshal, 11 July 1800 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Godwin to James Marshal, 2 August 1800 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 5 William Godwin to James Marshal, 14 August 1800 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 6 Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Godwin, [11 September 1800] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Godwin, 9 December 1800 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 4 Ann Hull Godwin to William Godwin, 1 January 1801 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Godwin to Mary Jane Clairmont [Godwin], 9 October 1801 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 5 William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 5 June 1806 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 9 William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 18 May 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 6 William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 20 May 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 24 May 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Keats to Leigh Hunt, 10 May 1817 in Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Found 1: ¶ 20 William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 2 June 1817 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Coleridge, John Taylor, Sir, 1790-1876, “Shelley’s Revolt of Islam” in Quarterly Review 21 (April 1819) 460-71 Found 1: ¶ Lord Byron to John Murray, 15 May 1819 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Percy Bysshe Shelley to Leigh Hunt, 3 September 1819 in Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Found 1: ¶ 7 William Godwin to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 9 September 1819 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley to Leigh Hunt, December 1819 in Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 7 Percy Bysshe Shelley to Leigh Hunt, 2 December 1819 in Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 4 Lord Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 3 April 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ n1 Lord Byron to Percy Bysshe Shelley, 26 April 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 6 Lord Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 11 May 1821 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley to Edward John Trelawny, [March 1822] in Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Godwin to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 3 May 1822 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley to Edward John Trelawny, 16 May 1822 in Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) Found 1: ¶ 2 Percy Bysshe Shelley to Edward John Trelawny, 18 June 1822 in Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) Found 1: ¶ 5 Edward Ellerker Williams to Jane Johnson [Williams] [6 July 1822] in Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) Found 1: ¶ 1 Leigh Hunt to Edward John Trelawny, 1 August 1822 in Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lord Byron to John Murray, 23 November 1822 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 9 Lord Byron to John Murray, 25 December 1822 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 7 Percy Bysshe Shelley to Mary Jane Godwin, 29 May 1822 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Leigh Hunt to Vincent Novello, 24 July 1823 in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Leigh Hunt to Mary Sabilla Novello, 25 July 1823 in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lady Caroline Lamb to William Godwin, [September? 1823] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Leigh Hunt to Vincent Novello, 9 September 1823 in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) On the drama; on superstition Found 1: ¶ 27 George Frederick Nott Found 1: ¶ 3 The Death of Shelley Found 1: ¶ n1 Leigh Hunt to Vincent and Mary Sabilla Novello, 9 January 1824 in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 2 Leigh Hunt to Mary Sabilla Novello, [October 1824?] in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Leigh Hunt to Mary Sabilla Novello and the Gliddons, 7 September 1825 in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 2 Leigh Hunt to Vincent Novello, [1826?] in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 6 April 1826 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. 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(John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IV 1818 Found 1: ¶ 10 William Howitt , “Leigh Hunt” in Homes and Haunts of the most eminent British Poets 2 Vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1847) 347-67 Found 1: ¶ Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Shelley at Eton Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 7 ¶ 12 Taste for the Gothic Found 1: ¶ 5 Queen Mab Found 4: ¶ 7 ¶ 13 ¶ 21 ¶ 24 Shelley at Oxford Found 1: ¶ 19 First Marriage Found 1: ¶ 10 Death of Harriet Found 1: ¶ 15 Chancery Suit Found 1: ¶ 21 Switzerland: 1814 Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 9 Alastor; Geneva: 1816 Found 1: ¶ 11 Frankenstein Found 1: ¶ 11 Byron and Claire Found 1: ¶ 13 At Marlow: 1817 Found 1: ¶ 10 Italy: 1818 Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 12 Naples, Rome: 1819 Found 3: ¶ 13 ¶ 26 ¶ n1 The Cenci Found 2: ¶ 8 ¶ 9 Florence: 1819 Found 1: ¶ 2 Pisa: 1820 Found 1: ¶ 2 Poets and Poetry Found 4: ¶ 9 ¶ 14 ¶ 17 ¶ 25 Pisa: 1821 Found 6: ¶ 6 ¶ 8 ¶ 9 ¶ 10 ¶ 11 ¶ 15 Epipsychidion Found 5: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 8 ¶ 9 ¶ 21 Shelley and Keats Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 6 ¶ 17 Williams, Hunt, Byron Found 6: ¶ 3 ¶ 11 ¶ 14 ¶ 16 ¶ 20 ¶ 24 Shelley and Byron Found 1: ¶ 8 Poetry and Politics Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ 21 Byron and his Friends Found 1: ¶ 8 The Pisan Circle Found 5: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 8 ¶ 12 ¶ 13 Casa Magni Found 5: ¶ 10 ¶ 15 ¶ 16 ¶ 17 ¶ 18 Death of Shelley Found 5: ¶ 5 ¶ 7 ¶ 15 ¶ 16 ¶ 17 Lerici: 1822 Found 4: ¶ 1 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 16 Character of Shelley Found 2: ¶ 13 ¶ 26 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. 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Found 4: ¶ 64 ¶ 65 ¶ 66 ¶ 68 Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881, Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 10 Chapter VII. Found 7: ¶ 12 ¶ 16 ¶ 20 ¶ 30 ¶ 31 ¶ 38 ¶ 45 Chapter VIII. Found 4: ¶ 6 ¶ 16 ¶ 17 ¶ 18 Chapter X. Chapter XI. Found 2: ¶ 21 ¶ 31 Chapter XIII. Found 1: ¶ 5 Chapter XIV. Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ 12 Chapter XV. Found 1: ¶ 13 Chapter XVI. Found 3: ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ 7 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXIV Found 1: ¶ 5 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Prelude 2 Found 1: ¶ 30 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Preface Found 1: ¶ 1 Ch. I. 1756-1785 Found 1: ¶ 2 Ch. II. 1785-1788 Found 3: ¶ 2 ¶ 33 ¶ 53 Ch. 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