mary shelley

     

She had her lover & future husband Percy edit her first novel, "Frankenstein"

Trivia about mary shelley

  • After her husband Percy died, this author urged one of Washington Irving's friends to fix them up
  • Her mother Mary Wollstonecraft was also an accomplished author
  • Shelley Duvall, exec. producer of "Nightmare Classics", says she was named for this nightmarish authoress
  • She published a romantic novel called "Valperga" in 1823, 5 years after giving birth to "Frankenstein"
  • (Here's the Frankenstein Monster.) In a 1935 film Elsa Lanchester played my bride & in the prologue, this author
  • "I beheld the wretch--the miserable monster whom I had created"
  • The author of a "monstrous" 1818 classic, she later wrote the autobiographical "Lodore" in 1835
  • In the foreword to her 1818 novel, she recalls a trip to Switzerland & a ghost story contest with Lord Byron
  • She met poet Percy in the spring of 1814, eloped to France with him in July & married him in 1816
  • This author's works include "Valperga", "The Last Man" & "Frankenstein"
  • Albion House in the town of Marlow is the place where she finished writing "Frankenstein"
  • In 1818, she "gave birth" to the world's most famous monster
  • Besides the title role in "The Bride of Frankenstein ", Elsa Lanchester also played this writer
  • In 1851 she was laid to rest in an English churchyard along with husband Percy's heart & a copy of his "Adonais"
  • In 1823 she wrote the novel "Valperga"; she also edited her husband's poetry
  • Sadly, her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, died just 10 days after her birth
  • "The Last Man", a tale of the last man on Earth, is by this woman known for another book on creating a man
  • This 19th century author's maiden name was Godwin
  • She wrote in 1822 of her husband's drowning, "Adonais is not Keats's it is his own elegy"
  • It was more romance than horror when, in 1814, she ran away with a married poet & became a novelist