• Mary Shelley was a British author and editor during the Romantic Period.

• Fast Facts

  1. Born: August 30, 1797
  2. Birthplace: Somers Town, London, United Kingdom
  3. Died: February 1, 1851
  4. Literary genre: Gothic, Historical, Travel Writing
  5. Parents: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin
  6. Had no formal education
  7. Married Percy Bysshe Shelley
  8. Frankenstein inspired by a waking dream

• Career

  Mary Shelley was encouraged toward a literary life by her father and by her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was raised among books and received an informal education that surpassed what most women of her era could expect. Shelley wrote her first novel Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus while staying with her future husband Percy Shelly, their son William, Lord George Gordon Byron and Byron's physician John Polidori on Lake Geneva. While this has been her most enduring work, Shelley was a well-known writer during her lifetime, and completed three other novels, numerous short stories, essays, and travelogues.

• Notable Works

  • Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (1818)
  • Valperga (1823)
  • The Last Man (1826)
  • Perkin Warbeck (1830)

• Related Mahalo Pages

  Percy Bysshe Shelley | Lord George Gordon Byron | Frankenstein | John Polidori | Kenneth Branagh | Robert De Niro | Helena Bonham Carter | Bride of Frankenstein

• Parents

  Mary Shelley's mother, who died when Shelley was an infant, was Mary Wollstonecraft, a thinker and writer who advocated social change and equality. She wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Man, and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; she is sometimes considered to be an early feminist. Mary Shelley's father, William Godwin, was an extremely influential novelist and political thinker of his time, and served as somewhat of a mentor to Percy Shelley.

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