A selective bibliography of 64 active links for Mary Shelley, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages
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Albright, Richard S. "'In the mean time, what did Perdita?': Rhythms and Reversals in Mary Shelley's The Last Man." On Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 1826 novel. In Romanticism On the Net 13 (February 1999)
Allen, Graham. A substantial introduction to Mary Shelley, Literary Encyclopedia
Bennett, Betty T. A review of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: An Introduction. Reviewed by Syndy McMillen Conger. Romanticism on the Net 28 (November 2002)
Brewer, William D. "Unnationalized Englishmen in Mary Shelley's Fiction." In Romanticism On the Net 11 (August 1998)
Brewer, William D. "William Godwin, chivalry, and Mary Shelley's The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck." Papers on Language and Literature, Spring 1999
Brewer, William D. "Mary Shelley on the therapeutic value of language." Papers on Language and Literature, Fall 1994
Campbell Orr, Clarissa. On Mary Shelley's 1844 travel book, Rambles in Germany and Italy. Campbell Orr analyzes the book both as a portrait of Mary Shelley's personal attitudes and the era in which it was written, demonstrating the kind of self-portrait possible for a woman author of travel books. Romanticism On the Net 11 (August 1998)
Conger, Syndy M., Frederick S. Frank, and Gregory O'Dea, eds. A review of Iconoclastic Departures: Mary Shelley After 'Frankenstein' - Essays in Honor of the Bicentenary of Mary Shelley's Birth (Associated Univ. Presses, 1997). A Romanticism on the Net review by Rachel Woolley
Corbett, Robert. Introduction to Romanticism and Science Fictions - A Special Issue of Romanticism On the Net, Romanticism on the Net 21 (February 2001)
Crook, Nora. On the literary collaboration and sexual relationship of Percy and Mary Shelley. "Pecksie and the Elf: Did the Shelleys Couple Romantically?" Romanticism on the Net 18 (May 2000)
Crook, Nora. Crook reviews Mary Shelley, The Last Man.,, edited by McWhir, Anne (Broadview Books, 1996) and Mary Shelley, Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo. (Broadview Books, 1997) Romanticism on the Net
Curran, Stuart, ed. Mary Shelley's Valperga (Oxford Univ. Press, 1997), edited by Stuart Curran. A Romanticism on the Net review by Nora Crook
Garbin, Lidia. Garbin considers the change in direction, from Gothicism to historical romance, in Mary Shelley's fiction after Frankenstein. "The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: Walter Scott in the Writings of Mary Shelley." Romanticism On the Net 6 (May 1997)
Hilton, Nelson. Freudian discussion of Mary Shelley from Nelson Hilton's Lexis Complexes (University of Georgia Press, 1995)
Hopkins, Lisa. On Mary Shelley's use of memory and personal experience in The Last Man. "The Last Man and the Language of the Heart." Romanticism on the Net 22 (May 2001)
Hopkins, Lisa. "Memory at the End of History: Mary Shelley's The Last Man." Romanticism On the Net 6 (May 1997)
Kielstra, Julia Paulman Kielstra reviews Warren Stevenson's Romanticism and the Androgynous Sublime. (Associated Univ. Presses, 1996); and Johanna M. Smith's Mary Shelley Revisited (Twayne Publishers, 1996). Romanticism On the Net 6 (May 1997)
Labbe, Jacqueline. Labbe compares the use of maternal imagery in the writings of Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson, Mary Shelley, and Maria Elizabeth Robinson. "The Romance of Motherhood: Generation and the Literary Text." Romanticism on the Net 26 (May 2002)
Mandell, Laura. "Introduction: The Poetess Tradition." Romanticism on the Net, The Transatlantic Poetess. Issues 29-30 (February-May 2003)
McKeeverr, Kerry Ellen. "Writing and Melancholia: Saving the Self in Mary Shelley's 'The Mourner'." In Romanticism On the Net 14 (May 1999)
Schuetz, Julie K. "Mary Shelly's The Last Man: Monstrous Worlds, Domestic Communities, and Masculine Romantic Ideology." From Prometheus Unplugged at Emory Univ., no date
Simpkins, Scott. "Mary Shelley revisited." Simpkins reviews The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein edited by Audrey Fisch, Anne Mellor and Esther Schor and Mary Shelley's Early Novels: "This Child of Imagination and Misery" by Jane Blumberg. Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Spring 1995
Smith, Orianne. Smith finds connections between the work of Mary Shelley and French artist Annette Messager. "The Feminist Tradition of Mary Shelley and Annette Messager" (removed from http://www.luc.edu/faculty/osmith/anmary2.html)
Tomalin, Claire, ed. A review of Lost and Found: Mary Shelley, Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot: A Tale. (Alfred A. Knopf, 1998). A Romanticism on the Net review by A. A. Markley
White, Daniel E. "'The god undeified': Mary Shelley's Valperga, Italy, and the Aesthetic of Desire." Writes White: "Shelley offers a stark reading of the period from the failure of the French Revolution through 1821 as a mutually destructive polemic between a dominant political, social, and aesthetic masculine ideology and its feminine other, a polemic that significantly found its fittest expression and conclusion on Italian soil." In Romanticism On the Net 6 (May 1997)
Wordsworth, Jonathan. A review of The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age (Woodstock, 1997). Reviewed by Mark Sandy in Romanticism on the Net 22 (May 2001)
A biography of Mary Shelley from the Books and Writers web site, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland
Introduction to Mary Shelley, from the Victorian Web
Teuber, Andreas. An introduction to Mary Shelley and the origins of Frankenstein. Includes biographical essay. Class website at Brandeis Univ.
A Frankenstein web page from the National Library of Medicine
A study guide for Frankenstein intended for high school students. Provides an introduction to the novel and its historical context (McGraw-Hill)
Discussion questions for Frankenstein, from educator Robert Harris
Sonstroem, Eric. "Do You Really Want a Revolution? CyberTheory Meets Real-Life Pedagogical Practice in FrankenMOO and the Conventional Literature Classroom." A "skeptical yet somewhat optimistic" look at the usefulness of educational MOOs, and FrankenMOO in particular. College Literature, Summer 2006
On Kenneth Branagh's 1994 film version of Frankenstein, at the Internet Movie Data Base. Also a list of all movie versions of Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Chronology Resource SiteAn essay on Frankenstein from independent scholar Patricia Neal compares the novel with the 1931 film version with Boris Karloff (removed from http://ntserver.shc.edu/www/Scholar/neal/neal.html)
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