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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet, and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

Mary Godwin's mother died when Mary was eleven days old; afterward, Mary and her older half-sister, Fanny Imlay, were reared by their father. When Mary was four, Godwin married his neighbor, Mary Jane Clairmont. Godwin provided his daughter with a rich, if informal, education, encouraging her to adhere to his liberal political theories. In 1814, Mary Godwin began a romantic relationship with one of her father’s political followers, the married Percy Bysshe Shelley. Together with Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont, they left for France and traveled through Europe; upon their return to England, Mary was pregnant with Percy's child. Over the next two years, she and Percy faced ostracism, constant debt, and the death of their prematurely born daughter. They married in late 1816 after the suicide of Percy Shelley's first wife, Harriet.

In 1816, the couple famously spent a summer with Lord Byron, John William Polidori, and Claire Clairmont near Geneva, Switzerland, where Mary conceived the idea for her novel Frankenstein. The Shelleys left Britain in 1818 for Italy, where their second and third children died before Mary Shelley gave birth to her last and only surviving child, Percy Florence Shelley. In 1822, her husband drowned when his sailing boat sank during a storm near Viareggio. A year later, Mary Shelley returned to England and from then on devoted herself to the upbringing of her son and a career as a professional author. The last decade of her life was dogged by illness, probably caused by the brain tumor that was to kill her at the age of 53.

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Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759–1851 Works by Mary Shelley at Project Gutenberg:
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Works by Mary Shelley at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) Speaker Icon.svg:
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Mary Shelley chronology and bibliography – part of Romantic Circles:
http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/chron...

Archival material relating to Mary Shelley listed at the UK National Archives:
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley manuscript material, 1815-1850, held by the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, New York Public Library:
http://archives.nypl.org/cps/22142

Mary Shelley at the Internet Movie Database:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0791217/

Works by Mary Shelley at Open Library:
https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL253...

Mary W. Shelley biography at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame:
http://web.archive.org/web/2012072208...