Books
Mary Shelley
Miranda Seymour
Picador, 2000

Mary Shelley, Child of Light
Muriel Spark
revised edition Constable, 1988

Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters
Ann Mellor
Routledge, 1988

The Godwins and the Shelleys
William St Clair
Faber, 1989

The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844
Two volumes, edited by Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert
Clarendon Press, 1987

The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Three volumes, edited by Betty T. Bennett
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988

Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life
Janet Todd
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000

Weblinks
Frankenstein - Penetrating the Secrets of Nature - online record of an exhibition exploring popular culture's relationship with Shelley's best known creation

My Hideous Progeny - site promising "everything you ever wanted to know about Mary Shelley"

Frankenstein 'saved' by grant - BBC News Online reports on the fate of the original manuscript of the novel

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Courses
A210 - Approaching Literature - This course, which considers how we understand and react to texts includes a consideration of Frankenstein as part of a module looking at the Realist Novel.

A207 - From Enlightenment to Romanticism c.1780-1830 - At the heart of this interdisciplinary culture-based course is a range of European texts associated with the epoch-making transition from Enlightenment to Romanticism. The texts include music, philosophical and scientific writings, poetry, paintings and architecture by figures as diverse as Mozart, Rousseau, Humphry, Davy, Byron, Goethe, Schubert and Delacroix, and topics as varied as Napoleon, religious revival, African exploration and slavery, The Lake District, New Lanark, the Soane Museum and Brighton Pavilion.