These editions have allowed Shelley to be appreciated as a novelist, travel-writer, and diarist, and have catalyzed a study of her numerous other interests beyond writing, with recent essays paying due attention Shelley’s study of foreign cultures, and her role as the first, and best, editor of her husband’s poetry. Second, the initiation and completion of a number of textual projects provided scholarly editions of Shelley’s letters, journals, novels, and other writings. First, the importance of Shelley to influential feminist critics who attempted to shift the predominantly male and poetic focus of the Romantic canon via a reappraisal of Shelley’s writings. Two distinct but interrelated movements in literary studies led to a reappraisal of Shelley in the 1980s that has seen her emerge as one of the major, and most versatile, literary figures of the 19th century. For most of the 20th century if Shelley was discussed at all it was either for this novel or in the context of her remarkable family and her brief friendship with Lord Byron. Although it was published to little acclaim in 1818, from the 1820s to the present-day Frankenstein has inspired countless novels, plays, musicals, and films and remains a staple of high school syllabi and university courses. Shelley is known for writing Frankenstein or, the Modern Prometheus one of the best-selling and most culturally enduring novels to emerge from the Romantic period. Her adult life and career has often been defined by the eight years (1814–1822) she spent with her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, but her best critics have also appreciated the work Shelley produced in the second half of her life. Her mother died days after her birth, and Shelley grew up one of five siblings under the aegis of her unconventional father, who encouraged the children under his care to read and to educate themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) was born in Somers Town, London, the daughter of the radical philosophers William Godwin and the Mary Wollstonecraft.
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