Romantic
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1797–1851
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) was the daughter of the philosopher William Godwin and the feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft, who died days after her birth. At sixteen she eloped with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley; Frankenstein, begun in Switzerland in the summer of 1816, was published anonymously in 1818 when she was twenty. After Shelley drowned in 1822 she supported herself and her son by writing — novels including The Last Man (1826), biographies, travel books — and edited her husband’s poems.
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Books by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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