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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
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From: A Dictionary of British History
Date: 20040101
Author:JOHN CANNON
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
(1797–1851). Author. Only daughter of the radical philosopher William Godwin and early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft , pretty, bookish Mary eloped with the young Percy Bysshe Shelley to Europe in 1814, marrying him on his wife Harriet's suicide (1816). Her most famous novel Frankenstein (1818) founded the genre of ‘scientific Gothick’ later exploited by horror‐film makers.After the poet's death (1822), Mary returned to England and became a professional writer in order to educate her only surviving child Percy Florence ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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