The following sources provided information for the Mary Shelley Chronology:

The Clairmont Correspondence: Letters of Claire Clairmont, Charles Clairmont, and Fanny Imlay Godwin. 2 volumes. Editied by Marion Kingston Stocking. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1995

Forry, Steven Earl. Hideous Progenies: Dramatizations of Frankenstein from Mary Shelley to the Present . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press: 1990.

The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. 2 volumes. Edited by Paula R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1987.

The Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. 3 volumes. Edited by Betty T. Bennett. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.

Lyles, William H. Mary Shelley, an Annotated Bibliography. New York : Garland Pub., 1975.

The Mary Shelley Reader :Containing Frankenstein, Mathilda, Tales and Stories, Essays and Reviews, and Letters. Edited by Betty T. Bennett and Charles E. Robinson. New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.

The Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley. 8 volumes. General editor, Nora Crook with Pamela Clemit. London : William Pickering, 1996.

Robinson, Charles E. The Frankenstein Notebooks. 2 volumes. New York : Garland Pub., 1996.

Shelley and his Circle. Vols I-IV, Kenneth Neill Cameron and Donald H. Reiman, eds. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1961-1986.

Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1989.