A Literary Family

Partially by chance and partially on purpose, I have accumulated a little stack of works by and about Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley.  I have been following the posts on Book World about Mary Wollstonecraft as well as chatting with a coworker who has read some of her works as well.  Add this to my recent interest in reading more (okay something) by 18th century authors, and how could I pass up these books?  I have started reading Claire Tomalin's The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft (for which she won the Whitbread Prize for first book).  I like the idea of working towards reading an author's work by first reading about the author.  I think this might be the first time I have done so.  I plan on reading A Vindication of the Rights of Woman after the biography.  There is also fictional account of Mary Wollstonecraft (that I forgot to add to the pile, but which I own) called Vindication by Frances Sherwood.  These are the books  I have chosen on purpose.  By chance I found The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein on the new book cart at work.  This is a biography of Mary Shelley and an account of her writing Frankenstein.  I have never read Frankenstein, but this would be the perfect time as a follow up.  I like how books can fit together like this, and you can get not only a sense of authors and their families but of the social times as well.