![]() ![]() She was born in 1797 as Mary Godwin, named after her mother, who died shortly after giving birth to her. Her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, was a noted poet of the Romantic movement, and was married to someone else when they first fell in love. ![]() Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was an early feminist author and iconoclast. Her father, William Godwin, was a noted political philosopher and free-thinker. Today, 200 years later, her name is synonymous with the monster at her story’s center, familiar to international audiences thanks to numerous films, Halloween costumes, parodies, and more.īut as a person, what do we really know about Mary herself? We rarely acknowledge the life of Mary Shelley before she wrote "Frankenstein" - nor the life she lived after its publication. ![]()
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