Mary Shelley

English novelist, author of Frankenstein, 1797–1851. Explained quotes.

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About Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was the daughter of the philosopher William Godwin and the feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft. She began Frankenstein at 18, during a ghost-story contest with Lord Byron and Percy Shelley at Lake Geneva in 1816. It was published in 1818 and is often called the first science fiction novel.

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“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”
Frankenstein, Chapter 10 (the creature), 1818