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Revision as of 06:00, 1 September 2001 by The Cunctator (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly (1797-1851), daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, was the author of Frankenstein which is arguably the first Science Fiction novel. She was married to the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
She began work on Frankenstein when staying at Lake Geneva in Switzerland with Byron and Shelley, after Byron suggested they all write "ghost stories."