List of works by Mary Shelley
Title Authors First publication Notes Online text
Lives of the most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy , Spain , and Portugal , Vol . I Mary Shelley and James Montgomery Vol . 86 of The Cabinet of Biography , Conducted by the Rev . Dionysius Lardner ( Lardner 's Cabinet Cyclopedia ) . London : Printed for Longman , Orme , Brown , Green , & Longman ; and John Taylor , 1835 Authorship is uncertain regarding some of the biographies in the volume . According to Mary Shelley 's Literary Lives and Other Writings , Mary Shelley wrote the following lives : Petrarch , Boccaccio , Lorenzo de'Medici , Marsiglio Ficino , Giovanni Pico della Mirandola , Angelo Poliziano , Bernardo Pulci , Luca Pulci , Luigi Pulci , Cieco Da Ferrara , Burchiello , Bojardo , Berni , Machiavelli Internet Archive
Lives of the most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy , Spain , and Portugal , Vol . II Mary Shelley , James Montgomery , and Sir David Brewster Vol . 87 of The Cabinet of Biography , Conducted by the Rev . Dionysius Lardner ( Lardner 's Cabinet Cyclopedia ) . London : Printed for Longman , Orme , Brown , Green , & Longman ; and John Taylor , 1835 Authorship is uncertain regarding some of the biographies in the volume . According to Mary Shelley 's Literary Lives and Other Writings , Mary Shelley wrote the following lives : Guicciardini , Vittoria Colonna , Guarini , Chiabrera , Tassoni , Marini , Filicaja , Metastasio , Goldoni , Alfieri , Monti , Ugo Foscolo Internet Archive
Lives of the most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy , Spain , and Portugal , Vol . III Mary Shelley [ and others ] Vol . 88 of The Cabinet of Biography , Conducted by the Rev . Dionysius Lardner ( Lardner 's Cabinet Cyclopedia ) . London : Printed for Longman , Orme , Brown , Green , & Longman ; and John Taylor , 1837 According to Mary Shelley 's Literary Lives and Other Writings , Mary Shelley wrote the biographies of : Boscan , Garcilaso de la Vega , Diego Hurtado de Mendoza , Luis de Leon , Herrera , Saa de Miranda , Jorge de Montemayor , Castillejo , Cervantes , Lope de Vega , Vicente Espinel , Estaban de Villegas , Góngora , Quevedo , Calderón , Ribeyro , Gil Vicente , Ferreira , Camoens Internet Archive
Lives of the most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of France , Vol . I Mary Shelley [ and others ] Vol . 102 of The Cabinet of Biography , Conducted by the Rev . Dionysius Lardner ( Lardner 's Cabinet Cyclopedia ) . London : Printed for Longman , Orme , Brown , Green , & Longman ; and John Taylor , 1838 According to Mary Shelley 's Literary Lives and Other Writings , Mary Shelley wrote the following biographies : Montaigne , Corneille , Rouchefoucauld , Molière , Pascal , Madame de Sévigné , Boileau , Racine , Fénélon Internet Archive
Lives of the most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of France , Vol . II Mary Shelley Vol . 103 of The Cabinet of Biography , Conducted by the Rev . Dionysius Lardner ( Lardner 's Cabinet Cyclopedia ) . London : Printed for Longman , Orme , Brown , Green , & Longman ; and John Taylor , 1839 This volume contains the following biographies : Voltaire , Rousseau , Condorcet , Mirabeau , Madame Roland , Madame de Stael Internet Archive
Life of William Godwin Mary Shelley Unfinished and unpublished ; Edited from the manuscripts in the Abinger Collection , Bodleian Library , Oxford by Pamela Clemit in 'Literary Lives , ' Vol . 4 , 3-113
Biographies
This is a list of works by Mary Shelley (30 August 1797 - 1 February 1851), the British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Until the 1970s, Mary Shelley was known mainly for her efforts to publish Percy Shelley's works and for Frankenstein. Recent scholarship has yielded a more comprehensive view of Mary Shelleys achievements, however. 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 (1829-46) support the growing view that Mary Shelley remained a political radical throughout her life. Mary 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 Enlightenment political theories. Collections of Mary Shelley's papers are housed in The Abinger Collection and The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library, the New York Public Library (particularly The Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle), the Huntington Library, the British Library, and in the John Murray Collection. The following list is based on W. H. Lyles's Mary Shelley: An Annotated Bibliography and Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other Writings. It lists first editions of works authored by Mary Shelley, except where indicated.