Mary Shelley (1797–1851) was a novelist who is best known for writing the Gothic novel Frankenstein (1818). She edited and promoted the works of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. ...view moreMary Shelley (1797–1851) was a novelist who is best known for writing the Gothic novel Frankenstein (1818). She edited and promoted the works of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft.view less
10 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die, Vol. 3: The Pit and the Pendulum, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, At the Mountains of Madness, Frankenstein, No Longer Human. Confessions of a Faulty Man