Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was an English author of gothic fiction and horror novels. In addition to being a novelist, she was also a short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer, and editor for her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary was the daughter of William Godwin, a political philosopher, and writer/philosopher/feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. She is best known for her novel Frankenstein , but her success was by no means limited to it, as demonstrated in Emily Sunstein’s biography, Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality .
