Essays on Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley’s epistolary novel Frankenstein is still one of the most prominent and exemplary pieces of Romantic literature in the 20th century. The idiosyncrasies within the structure, its obscure origin and plot, the time it was written and the fact that it was a novel supported by Romantics but, also because it exploits the true...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was a widely-known author that created the famous novel Frankenstein and was the daughter of the well-known feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary gained an interest in writing ever since she was young, and developed an even greater interest when she married her late husband, Percy Shelley. Although Mary’s mother passed away at an...

It was a dark and stormy night in the summer of 1816 when… “the story of Frankenstein’s origin began” (Geiger 1). Flashback to almost 19 years before this, on August 30, 1797, Mary Shelley was born (Miller 12). Mary Shelley is most notable for her novel “Frankenstein”, but her life was defined by so much...