Pickering Women's Classics
2 total works
In "Frankenstein" - the story of an ambitious young scientist and the monster he unleashes - Mary Shelley (1797-1851) questions the mystery of nature and the "principle of life". She provides a moral comment on the industrial age.
Mary and Maria by Mary Wollstonecraft, Matilda by Mary Shelley
by Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Published 18 December 1991
Three novels, two by Mary Wollstonecraft and one by her daughter, Mary Shelley, here published together for the first time. In "Mary", the author expresses her ideas on female emancipation and extends them in "Maria". "Matilda" relates the story of a father's incestuous desire for his daughter.