Mary Shelley
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born
August 30, 1797
died
February 01, 1851
gender
female
place of birth
Somers Town, London, United Kingdom
genre
Literature & Fiction, Horror
about this author
Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer, and editor of the works of her husband, Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was the daughter of the political philosopher William Godwin and the writer, philosopher, and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.
Mary Shelley was taken seriously as a writer in her own lifetime, though reviewers often missed the political edge to her novels. After her death, however, she was chiefly remembered only as the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley and as the author of Frankenstein. It was not until 1989, when Emily Sunstein published her prizewinning biography Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality, ...more
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quotes by Mary Shelley
"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."
— Mary Shelley (Frankenstein (Oxford World's Classics))
— Mary Shelley (Frankenstein (Oxford World's Classics))
"How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow."
— Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)
— Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)
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