On This Day: “Frankenstein” author Mary Shelley was born

On August 30th, 1797, “Frankenstein” author Mary Shelley was born in London. She was a novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.
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