Mary Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. (Source.)
Mary Shelley
Author details
- Aliases:
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Born:
- Aug. 29, 1797
- Died:
- Jan. 31, 1851
External links
Books by Mary Shelley
Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes
by Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, and 119 others
