Author

Books by Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) was an English novelist, essayist, and editor. She was the daughter of the philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who died shortly after her birth. She began writing Frankenstein at eighteen during the celebrated summer of 1816 at the Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva, in the company of Percy Bysshe Shelley (whom she married that year), Lord Byron, and John Polidori. Frankenstein was published anonymously in 1818; her authorship was confirmed in the 1823 edition. Her other works include the apocalyptic novel The Last Man and several biographical and travel works.