
Books by Mary Shelley
Lived: 1797–1851
Nationality: English
Gender: female
Catalog: 1 book
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.)
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 1818 · 20 lists
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