Various sites give overviews of Mary Shelley's life, with links to information about her equally famous mother, father, and husband. The Mary Shelley and Frankenstein site gives you a variety of links that will illuminate you about the author's life.

There is a searchable full text version on line.

For information on the gothic tradition, follow the links on "The Literary Gothic" website., or see my summary on my Gothic Novel page.

A website on women of the Romantic era takes an interesting approach: "This interactive hypertext uses Richard Polwhele's poem "The Unsex'd Females" to introduce students and scholars alike to some of the British Romantic Period's foremost female contributors." It's worth a look.

For information on the Romantic era, go to Romantic Circles and follow the links.. Romantic Circles has been selected by the NEH as one of the 21 best sites on the Internet for education in the humanities

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