Mary Shelley
1797-1851
Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley wrote the horror novel Frankenstein;
or, The Modern Prometheus.
To most of us, this is the archetypal story of a mad scientist who
unleashes a rampaging
monster on his community; however, the book is more talky than you
might suspect, and delves deeply into the responsibility a creator has
to his creation.
Mary was the wife of the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe
Shelley (m. 1816, died 1822). She was the daughter of the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft,
who died giving birth to her.
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