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Mary Shelley

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Birth Date 30 August 1797

Death Date 1 February 1851

Personal Name Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Alternate Names

  • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
  • Mary W. Shelley
  • W. Mary Shelley
  • Mary Shelley

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Mary Wollstonecraft 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.)