Library Guides: Literature in English: Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley Research Guide

The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844
edited by Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert

Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus: in Three Volumes
First edition of Frankenstein in the Bancroft Archive.
Works in Bancroft
Other original and rare works by Mary Shelley in the Bancroft Archive

Frankenstein Volume I Draft
Digitized edition of the original draft manuscript of Frankenstein, handwritten with edits, with handwriting of both Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley. Partially transcribed.
Books at the Library
UC Berkeley's collection of books with Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley listed as the author.
Mary Shelley's Annotated Frankenstein
A digital facsimile presented in conjunction with the exhibition "It’s Alive! Frankenstein at 200," on view October 12, 2018 through January 27, 2019 via the Morgan Library & Museum.
Mary Shelley (Chadwyck-Healey)
Mary Shelley's works, digitized as part of Chadwyck-Healey's Nineteenth-Century Fiction Collection.

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The Nineteenth-Century Fiction Collection (Chadwyck-Healey) is a collection of 250 British and Irish novels from the period 1782 to 1903, stretching from the golden age of Gothic fiction to the Decadent and New Woman novels of the 1890s. Major novelists of the period such as Austen, Scott, Mary Shelley, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy and the Brontës feature alongside popular romances, sensation fiction, colonial adventure novels and children's literature.
Shelley-Godwin Archive
Digitized manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft.

Review of Frankenstein, British Critic
Contemporary review from the British Critic, a quarterly review. April 1818, 432-438.
Remarks on Frankenstein; Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Contemporary review of Frankenstein. March 1818, Vol. 2 Issue 12, preceding p614-620.
Mary Shelley: Criticism and Interpretation
Critical works that list "Mary Shelley: Criticism and Interpretation" as a subject on OskiCat.
Frankenstein-Specific Criticism
Critical works which list Shelley's Frankenstein as a subject on OskiCat
NINES - Nineteeth-century Scholarship Online
Provides enhanced access to digital research on the 19th century and serves a peer-reviewing body for digital resources in this area.

Works of Mary Wollstonecraft
Collected writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley's mother.
Women and Literature in 19th Century England
Critical works that list "Women and Literature in 19th Century England" as a subject on OskiCat.

Victorian Database Online
Index of hundreds of multidisciplinary publications covering Victorian Britain (1830-1914). [1945 - present]

Indexes over 500 journals, books, and dissertations concerning Victorian Britain (defined as 1830-1914), in every field of nineteenth-century British studies including: painting, architecture, and music; philosophy and religion; histories of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and the British Empire; military and naval history; politics, commerce, and economics; sociology, women's studies, law, and education; science, technology, and medicine; and literature, drama, poetry, prose, and fiction. This is an online version of the Cumulative Bibliography of Victorian Studies.
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
Comprehensive coverage of nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives. (19th Century Index) [1800 - 1899]

C19 Index draws on the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, Poole's Index and Periodicals Index Online to create integrated bibliographic coverage of over 1.4 million books and official publications, 64,891 archival collections and 15.6 million articles published in over 2,500 journals, magazines and newspapers.

Keats-Shelley House
It's Alive! Frankenstein at 200
The Morgan Museum's temporary exhibition on Frankenstein.
UC Berkeley Library Prize Exhibit
Exhibit on a paper titled “Over Mary’s Dead Body: Frankenstein, Sexism & Socialism" by undergraduate Julia Burke, on 2nd Floor Doe.
Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature
Online exhibition from the U.S. National Library of Medicine which explores the relationship between Frankenstein, medicine, and science.

This guide is being developed! There's more to come.