Talk:Mary Shelley

This sentence fragment was in the article, and upon rereading it, I found it less and less convincing:

"He decided to kill himself with a revolving spud gun, this was later sent to ferensics for DNA analysis to reveal that he was a girl[.]"

On the grounds that potato shooters are largely non-lethal and were not prevalent in that time, that Shelley was in fact male, that DNA analysis had not been invented yet, and that "forensics" is not spelled that way, I have removed the above specimen. I hope no one objects. Vivacissamamente 07:12, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Quality

This article lacks structure and focus. It reads like a magazine article not like an encyclopedia entry - can someone target it for clean up, or deletion.

Banned

"South Africa's apartheid regime banned a number of classic books; in 1955, for instance, the New York Times reported that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was banned there as "indecent, objectionable, or obscene" http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html Ogg 12:32, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

halcyon summer

In its rather new form, I like the article, but I'm concerned about the extent to which it is currently encyclopedic. It now reads like an excerpt from a book of literary criticism, rather than an encyclopedia article, (and I wonder how many of our readers know what a "halcyon summer" is). What do other people think? func(talk) 14:05, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Sex on Graves

I'm trying to find out some more info on Mary Shelley and her alleged sexual fetish of having sex on her mother's grave. Any one know where I could find info on this subject? Sveden 21:29, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

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Consistency

"Over the following years, Mary's household grew to include her own children by Percy, occasional friends, and Claire's daughter by Byron."

The Wikipedia entry on Claire Clairmont says Byron accepted custody of their daughter and placed the child in an Italian convent, where she died at age five. Could an expert please resolve this for consistency? Durova 01:32, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

why does it matter? It matters because accuracy is key (who wants to look something up in an encyclopedia and find what they're reading erroneous(sp?))

Quotation Mark Errors

Can one miss the darkling reflection of the Beckford character's "insolent desire to "penetrate the secrets of heaven" in both "Alastor" ...

The quotation marks here are a bit strange. I believe there should be another pair of quotation marks after "desire"? So it will read, instead: Can one miss the darkling reflection of the Beckford character's "insolent desire" to "penetrate the secrets of heaven" in both "Alastor" ...

But I'm not actually sure if the quote before "penetrate" is in error instead. Any ideas? The whole quote is rather confusing.

Inacerecy

Mary Wollstonecraft wrote Maria not Mary Shelly

Mary Wollstonecraft's death?

according to: Ty, Eleanor. “Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.” Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. Bradford K. Mudge. Vol. 116. Detroit:Gale, 1992. 105-107.

Mary Wollstonecraft died 11 days after Mary's birth (as opposed to 10 which is what this article says). I'm just a student working on a report, but perhaps somebody needs to look into this and perhaps get this changed, maybe the Dictionary of Literary Biography is wrong...

who is whom and whose?

Her son, Sir Percy Shelley, arranged for her parents to be exhumed and re-buried next to her; he and his wife are also buried there. It's confusing whom do you refer to. Jclerman 15:40, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Biased?

Needs some rewording, methinks. Parts of it sound very harsh toward P.B. Shelley.

Atheist?

Wasn't her father, William Godwin, an atheist? She also married an atheist. So, was she infact, the same? I'm not sure is it is important, but I was just curious myself. IronCrow 01:08, 27 October 2006 (UTC)