If you've been inspired by the Romantic era and would like to read more, we've selected some reading materials you may like to take a look at. Find out more in our section on further reading.

Poems
Romantic Writings: an Anthology, W. R. Owens, and Hamish Johnson (eds.)  (The Open University) ISBN is 0749287632.

Romanticism: An Anthology, Duncan Wu (Blackwell) ISBN 0631204814

Novels
Romantic Affinities: Portrait of an Age, 1780-1830, Rupert Christiansen, Putnam Pub Group, ISBN 0399133100

Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries: English Literature and Its Background, 1730-1830, Marilyn Butler, Oxford Paperbacks, ISBN 0192891324

Mary Shelley, Miranda Seymour, Picador, 2000, ISBN 0330374478

Mary Shelley, Child of Light -Muriel Spark, revised edition Welcome Rain Publishers (Jan 2003), ISBN 156649236X

Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters, Ann Mellor, Routledge, 1990. ISBN 0415901472 

The Godwins and the Shelleys, William St Clair
Faber, 1989, ISBN 0571154220

The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844
Two volumes, edited by Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert
Clarendon Press, 1987
Vol 1 - ISBN 0801850886 Vol 2 - ISNB 0198125712

The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Three volumes, edited by Betty T. Bennett
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988,
Vol 1 - ISBN 0801822750 Vol 2 - ISBN 0801826454, Vol 3 - ISBN 0801826462

Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life, Janet Todd
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003, ISBN 0713996005

‘Poems’ by William Blake, Everyman Poetry ISBN 046087800X

‘Blake’ by Peter Ackroyd,  Minerva, ISBN 0749391766

‘William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Manuscripts’ by David Bindman,Thames and Hudson, ISBN 0500282455

‘William Wordsworth: The Major Works’, Oxford World’s Classics ISBN 0192840444

‘Wordsworth: A Life’ by Juliet Barker,  Penguin, ISBN 0140261621

‘Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works’ ,Oxford World’s Classics ISBN 0192840436

‘Coleridge – Early Visions’ by Richard Holmes, Flamingo ISBN 0006548415

‘Coleridge – Darker Reflections’ by Richard Holmes,
Flamingo ISBN 0006548423

‘Lord Byron: The Major Works’ , Oxford World’s Classics ISBN 0192840401

‘Byron: Life and Legend’ by Fiona MacCarthy,John Murray ISBN 071955621X

‘John Keats: The Major Works’ ,Oxford World’s Classics, ISBN  0192840630

‘Keats’ by Andrew Motion, Faber and Faber, ISBN 0571172288

‘Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works’ ,Oxford World’s Classics ISBN 0192813749

‘Shelley and His World’ ,by Claire Tomalin, Penguin, ISBN 0140171525     

Weblinks
Frankenstein - Penetrating the Secrets of Nature - online record of an exhibition exploring popular culture's relationship with Shelley's best known creation

My Hideous Progeny - site promising "everything you ever wanted to know about Mary Shelley"

Frankenstein 'saved' by grant - BBC News Online reports on the fate of the original manuscript of the novel

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