List of Characters: Biographies
Taken from Shelley’s works or life, these characters are frequently recycled and re-approached. Below, each “Character” from her novel is linked to its “biography” on the Romantic Circles website edition of Frankenstein, Ed. Stuart Curran (2009).
Elizabeth [Lavenza] Frankenstein
Other (novel): See other character “biographies” from Curran’s edition.
Mary Shelley and Lord Byron have biographical entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
See Mary Shelley
See Lord Byron
The extraordinary “Shelley’s Ghost” exhibit from the Bodleian Library, along with the New York Public Library, is housed online and has excellent information about one of England’s “great literary families”
Curran’s edition of Frankenstein also includes biographies of other figures from Shelley’s life of possible interest: