Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley (1797–1851) was an English novelist and writer whose Frankenstein, first published in 1818, explores creation, responsibility, isolation and the limits of knowledge. Her other work includes The Last Man, historical novels, biographies and travel writing. The daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, she married poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her literary career extends beyond Frankenstein to sustained interests in society, history and individual experience.