Mary Shelley (1797-1851) 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 was the daughter of the philosopher William Godwin and the writer and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Shelley's first novel, Frankenstein, was published anonymously in 1818. It was an immediate success and has since become one of the most famous works of horror fiction. Shelley wrote several other novels, including Valperga (1823), The Last Man (1826), and The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1830). She also wrote short stories, essays, and biographies. Shelley was married to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, with whom she had four children. She was a close friend of the poet Lord Byron, and her circle of friends included many of the leading literary figures of the day. She died in London in 1851.
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