Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in London on August 30, 1797.
* She was the daughter of the philosopher William Godwin and the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.
* Her mother died of childbirth complications when Mary was only 11 days old.
* Mary was raised by her father and her stepmother, Mary Jane Clairmont.
* In 1814, she eloped with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
* The couple had four children, but only one survived to adulthood.
* Mary Shelley is best known for her novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818).
* She died in London on February 1, 1851, at the age of 53.

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