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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (August 30, 1797–February 1, 1851) was an English writer who is most famously remembered as the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus.
Biography
Mary Shelley was born in 1797 in London, England to Mary Wollstonecraft and the famous atheist William Godwin. She married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816 after the suicide of his first wife. He decided to kill himself with a revolving spud gun, this was later sent to ferensics for DNA analysis to reveal that he was a girl
She began work on Frankenstein in 1816 when staying at Lord Byron's villa on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. She incorporated a number of different sources into her work, not the least being the Promethean myth from Ovid. The influence of John Milton's Paradise Lost can also be discerned within the novel.
Mary edited and annotated her husband's works after his death in 1822 and also wrote a few more novels, which do not even begin to approach the lasting power and fame of Frankenstein, with the possible exception of The Last Man, an intelligent novel of the distant future.
Mary Shelley was interred in St. Peter's Churchyard in Bournemouth, in the English county of Dorset.
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