Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, born on August 30, 1797, was a pivotal figure in the realm of English literature, remembered predominantly for her iconic gothic novel 'Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus' (1818). Her parentage was notable: her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was a trailblazing feminist philosopher, and her father, William Godwin, was a political philosopher and novelist. Despite the...