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| <b>Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley</b>, writer, (1797-1851) | |||
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly (1797-1851), daughter of ] and ], was the author of ] which is arguably the first ] novel. She was married to the romantic poet ]. | |||
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was most famously the author of ''], or The Modern Prometheus''. The daughter of ] and the atheist ], she married the poet ] in 1816 after the death of his first wife. | |||
| She began work on Frankenstein when staying at Lake Geneva in Switzerland with Byron and Shelley, after Byron suggested they all write "ghost stories." | |||
| Mary Shelley began work on Frankenstein when staying at ]'s villa on ] in ]. She incorporated a number of different sources into her work, not the least being the Promethean myth from ]. The influence of ]'s ] can also be discerned within the novel. | |||
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, writer, (1797-1851)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was most famously the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. The daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and the atheist William Godwin, she married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816 after the death of his first wife.
Mary Shelley began work on Frankenstein when staying at Lord Byron's villa on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. She incorporated a number of different sources into her work, not the least being the Promethean myth from Ovid. The influence of John Milton's Paradise Lost can also be discerned within the novel.