Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). 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. (Source.)
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Victor Frankenstein (Fictitious character), Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character), Mangan's sister, Castruccio Castracani (1281-1328), Ethelred, Father Time, Madeline Usher, Roderick Usher, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Alfred Doolittle, Berenice, Colonel Killigrew, Colonel Pickering, Colonel Sartoris, Devil, Dr. Heidegger, Egaeus, Eliza Doolittle, Emily Grierson, Ernest Valdemar, Ezra Buckley, F. B. Sanborn (1831-1917), Faith BrownTime
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- OLID: OL25342A
- Amazon ID: B00JLNLC7C
- BookBrainz: 401be5aa-1739-4cfd-8899-ff7588c02ca4
- GoodReads: 11139
- ISNI: 0000000120981238
- Integrated Authority File (GND): 11879695X
- IMDb: nm0791217
- Library of Congress Names: n79061063
- LibraryThing: shelleymary
- LibriVox: 783
- MusicBrainz: b58db027-dcd2-412c-8074-c19e49fccc8a
- Project Gutenberg: 61
- Storygraph: cc0f6e3e-f673-4d94-ae29-2c1f31d04256
- VIAF: 6293
- Wikidata: Q47152
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q47152
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- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Mary W. Shelley
- Mary Godwin Shelley
- mary shelley
- Shelley Mary
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