It had all the trappings of the Gothic genre, as well as the emotional swells of Romanticism, but it also delved into the scientific empiricism that was gaining popularity at the time. At the time, nothing of its sort had been written. But regardless of this gossip, the work was groundbreaking. Part of its draw at the time was perhaps the speculation surrounding who had written the book-many believed Percy was the author, as he penned the preface. Pages from the original manuscript of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, displayed for the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford literary exhibition on Novemin Oxford, England. Wollstonecraft died on September 10, 1797, days after giving birth to her daughter, leaving Godwin to look after the infant and her three-year-old half sister, Fanny Imlay, the result of Wollstonecraft’s affair with the American author and businessman Gilbert Imlay. William Godwin, her father, was a political writer equally famed for his anarchist Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) and his novel Caleb Williams (1794), which is widely considered to be the first fictive thriller. Mary Wollstonecraft, her mother, is well-known for writing A Vindication of the Rights of Woman(1792), a pivotal feminist text that frames women’s “inferiority” as a direct consequence of a lack of education. Her family was of reputable status, as both her parents were prominent members of the Enlightenment movement. Mary Shelley was born in London on August 30, 1797. Notable Quote: “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.”.Children: William Shelley, Clara Everina Shelley, Percy Florence Shelley.

Selected Works: History of a Six Weeks’ Tour (1817), Frankenstein (1818), Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1824), The Last Man (1826), Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men (1835-39).Died: February 1, 1851, Chester Square, London, England.Parents: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin.Born: Augin Somers Town, London, England.Known For: Prolific 19th-century writer whose novel 'Frankenstein' pioneered the science fiction genre.Full Name: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin).

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