Shelley

American  

[shel-ee] / ˈʃɛl i /

noun

1. Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) 1797–1851, English author (wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley).

2. Percy Bysshe 1792–1822, English poet.

3. a male or female given name.

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Shelley British  

/ ˈʃɛlɪ /

noun

1. Mary ( Wollstonecraft ) (ˈwʊlstənˌkrɑːft). 1797–1851, British writer; author of Frankenstein (1818); the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley

2. Percy Bysshe (bɪʃ). 1792–1822, British romantic poet. His works include Queen Mab (1813), Prometheus Unbound (1820), and The Triumph of Life (1824). He wrote an elegy on the death of Keats, Adonais (1821), and shorter lyrics, including the odes "To the West Wind" and "To a Skylark" (both 1820). He was drowned in the Ligurian Sea while sailing from Leghorn to La Spezia

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Example Sentences

If anything, his adaptation proves Mary Shelley’s prescience.

From Los Angeles Times

Shelley’s “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus” is a story of creation, birth, love, fear, exile and loneliness.

From Salon

Trapped indoors, Mary Shelley began to write ‘Frankenstein.’

From The Wall Street Journal

Trapped indoors, Mary Shelley began to write “Frankenstein.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Trapped inside, Mary Shelley began to write “Frankenstein.”

From The Wall Street Journal