The titles listed below supplement Charles Robinson’s “Suggested Further Reading” at the end of this volume. This list includes critical essays, Mary Shelley’s own writings, and two recent biographies that highlight the historical context for her life and work.
Bennett, Betty T., ed. Selected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. With Charles E. Robinson. Mary Shelley Reader. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Buss, Helen M., D. L. Macdonald, and Anne McWhir, eds. Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001.
Feldman, Paula R., and Diana Scott-Kilvert, eds. The Journals of Mary Shelley. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.
Gordon, Charlotte. Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. New York: Random House, 2015.
Seymour, Miranda. Mary Shelley. New York: Grove, 2000.
Smith, Andrew, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.