Mary Shelley major works

History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817) 

Frankenstein (1818) 
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Matilda (1820)

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Valperga (1823) 

The Last Man (1826) 

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The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1830) 

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Lodore (1835) 

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Falkner (1837) 

Rambles in Italy and Germany (1844) 

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  Mary Shelley's portrait by  Richard Rothwell , shown at the  Royal Academy  in 1840, accompanied by lines from  Percy Shelley 's poem  The Revolt of Islam  calling her a "child of love and light" . Reginald Easton's miniature of Mary Shelley is allegedly drawn from her  death mask.  
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Quotes of Mary Shelley

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.                                                                                           Marry Shelley Frankenstein  (1818) The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that f...
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Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

                                              Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay                                              To mould me Man, did I solicit thee                                              From darkness to promote me? In the summer of 1816, a young, well-educated woman from England traveled with her lover to the Swiss Alps. Unseasonable rain kept them trapped inside their lodgings, where they entertained themselves by reading ghost stories. At the urging of renowned poet Lord Byron, a friend and neighbor, they set their own pens to paper, competing to see who could write the best ghost story. The young woman, Mary Woll...
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