Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley was an English writer of the Romantic Era. Her most notable work is the Gothic novel Frankenstein, published in 1818. She was also Mary Wollstonecraft's daughter and Percy Bysshe Shelley's wife.

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• Lifetime: 30 August 1797 • 1 February 1851
• Main genre: Gothic fiction
• Literary movement: influenced by Romanticism
• Circles: the Shelley-Godwin family
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"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos."