Author · England
Mary Shelley
Died in 1851
Mary Shelley was born in 1797, the daughter of the philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft, who died eleven days after her birth, and of the philosopher William Godwin. At sixteen she left with an already married poet, whom she married in December 1816 after the suicide of his first wife, lost three children and her husband before she was twenty-five, and thereafter lived by her pen. She published five other novels, prepared in 1824 and in 1839 the edition of her husband's poems, and died in 1851.
In the catalogue 1
- NovelFrankenstein; or, The Modern PrometheusMary Shelley · 1818LiteraturePublic domain