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The Shelley-Godwin Archive
Division of Preservation and Access
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Frontispiece to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein published by Colburn and Bentley, London 1831.
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Photo caption
Frontispiece to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein published by Colburn and Bentley, London 1831.
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Mary Wollstonecraft and her husband William Godwin, together with their daughter Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, have been justly called “England’s first family of writers." Browse a collection of the family's digitized papers, including the original manuscript of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.