Mary Shelley

The daughter of two radicals who invented science fiction at eighteen on the shore of Lake Geneva.

Specifications & Metrics

era

1797 – 1851

language

English

region

London and Italy

notable works

Frankenstein, The Last Man, Mathilda

Core Principles & Analysis

• Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, she eloped with Percy Shelley at sixteen.
• Frankenstein grew from the 1816 ghost-story contest at Villa Diodati.
• The Last Man (1826) imagined a twenty-first-century plague apocalypse.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Mary Shelley