This is the definitive one-stop resource for anyone interested in this influential author. Coverage includes a concise but thorough biography of Shelley; entries on Shelley's major works—including extensive coverage of Frankenstein, as well as all her other novels and important short stories—with subentries on the work's main characters; and entries on related people, publications, and topics, such as Byronic hero, Paradise Lost, romanticism, science fiction, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft.