Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) was an English Romantic novelist best known for her groundbreaking Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She was the daughter of feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft and philosopher William Godwin. Beyond Frankenstein, she wrote other novels including Mathilda, Valperga, The Last Man, Lodore, and Falkner, and was a significant contributor to women’s writing and early science fiction.