Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley was a pioneering English novelist best known for Frankenstein (1818), a landmark of Gothic literature and early science fiction. The daughter of radical thinkers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, she led a life steeped in literary and philosophical ideas. Her work explores themes of creation, ambition, identity, and loss. Beyond Frankenstein, she wrote novels, travelogues, and short stories, and remained a vital voice in 19th-century literature.