Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) 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 phi...
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Date of birth:
- Aug 30, 1797
Date of death:
- Feb 1, 1851 (age 53 years)
Place of birth:
Also known as:
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin,
- Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley,
- Mary W. Shelley,
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley
