玛丽·雪莱

Mary Godwin： bold， somewhat imperious， and active of mind

The irresistible wildness and sublimity of her feelings， 1814

London and enshadowing thickets， 1814--1816

Switzerland and the component parts of a creature， 1816

Bath， Marlow and London， 1816-1818

Sorrows most obscure abode：Italy， 1818-1819

Pisa， San Terenzo and Genoa， 1820-1823

Presumption and The Last Man，1823-1826

The genuine affections of the heart， 1826-1840

Rambles and Unreserved directness， 1840-1851

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Mary Shelleys authorship of the novel Frankenstein guaranteed her wide-spread renown， but her turbulent life and other literary works are equallyfascinating. Born in 1797 to the writers Mary Wollstonecraft and WilliamGodwin. she inherited her parents passion for literature， social justice， andwomens rights. At the age of just sixteen she ran away with Romantic poetPercy Bysshe Shelle）， and was widowed by twenty-four. During their eightyears together （living mainly in Italy）， she was estranged from her family andsometimes from her husband， suffered periods of depression， and saw threeof their four children die in infancy. Despite her troubles， Mary Shelley main-tained a busy social life， including a complicated friendship with the poetI，ord Byron. She also wrote journals， short stories， mythical dramas， andseveral novels， including Frankenstein. After her husbands death in 1822 shereturned to England with her surviving son. She continued to write， both inorder to earn a living and to satisfy her literary ambitions. She also producedmajor editions of" her husbands poetry and prose.Martin Garretts engaging biography - extensively illustrated with originalletters and manuscripts - captures the extraordinary life of Mary Shelley andthe social circle in which she moved. Theauthor also discusses some of MaryShelleyslesser-known writings， longneglected but now the subject of continuing critical attention.
作者简介：
Martin Garrett has written extensively onboth nineteenth-century and Renais-sance literature. His recent booksinclude two titles in The British LibraryWriters Lives series - George Gordon. LordByron （2000） and Elizabeth Barrett Brown-ing and Robert Browning （2001） - andVenic： A Cultural and Literary Companion（Signal Books， 2001）. He is also theauthor of A MaryShelley. Chronology，（Palgrave Macmillan. 2001）.

Mary Shelleys authorship of the novel Frankenstein guaranteed her wide-spread renown， but her turbulent life and other literary works are equallyfascinating. Born in 1797 to the writers Mary Wollstonecraft and WilliamGodwin. she inherited her parents passion for literature， social justice， andwomens rights. At the age of just sixteen she ran away with Romantic poetPercy Bysshe Shelle）， and was widowed by twenty-four. During their eightyears together （living mainly in Italy）， she was estranged from her family andsometimes from her husband， suffered periods of depression， and saw threeof their four children die in infancy. Despite her troubles， Mary Shelley main-tained a busy social life， including a complicated friendship with the poetI，ord Byron. She also wrote journals， short stories， mythical dramas， andseveral novels， including Frankenstein. After her husbands death in 1822 shereturned to England with her surviving son. She continued to write， both inorder to earn a living and to satisfy her literary ambitions. She also producedmajor editions of" her husbands poetry and prose.Martin Garretts engaging biography - extensively illustrated with originalletters and manuscripts - captures the extraordinary life of Mary Shelley andthe social circle in which she moved. Theauthor also discusses some of MaryShelleyslesser-known writings， longneglected but now the subject of continuing critical attention.