Mary Wollstonecraft 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 political philosopher William Godwin and feminist activist Mary Wollstonecraft, and thus exposed to intellectual discourse from a young age. The death of her...