Harris, Janet. The woman who created Frankenstein: a portrait of Mary Shelley
Mellor, Anne Kostelanetz. Mary Shelley, her life, her fiction, and her monsters
Shelley, Mary W. The letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Seymore, Miranda. Mary Shelley
Spark, Muriel. Mary Shelley (2001)
St. Clair, William. The Godwins and the Shelleys: the biography of a family
Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and reality
Williams, John. Mary Shelley: a literary life
Other Fiction by Shelley
Maurice, or the fisher’s cot: a tale - The story of a boy who is stolen from his wealthy parents by a poor sailor’s wife.
Valperga, or The life and adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca - The story of a 14th-century Italian prince and the women in his life.
Related Fiction
Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale - An extreme tale of a not so futuristic society.
Milton, John. Paradise Lost - A fictionalized account of the fall of man, read by Frankenstein’s monster.
Orwell, John. Nineteen Eighty-Four - A cautionary tale that envisions an extreme future society.
Roszak, Theodore. The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein - A female companion to Frankenstein, this story presents the memoirs of Victor’s ill-fated bride.
Saberhagen, Fred. The Frankenstein Papers - This novel picks up where Frankenstein left off, continuing the narrative from the monster's point of view.
Stoker, Bram. Dracula - The famous Gothic vampire tale.
Wells, H.G. The War of the Worlds - The science fiction story that rattled radio listeners.
Websites
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/frankenstein/frankhome.html
Frankenstein: penetrating the secrets of nature - An exhibition at the National Library of Medicine. This site provides a background of Frankenstein as well as scientific histories and information from the period in which Shelley wrote Frankenstein.
http://www.litgothic.com/
The Literary Gothic - A collection of Gothic resources including author information. Provides excellent links and information on Mary Shelley.