Mary Shelley
/ˌmeəri ˈʃeli/
/ˌmeri ˈʃeli/
- (1797-1851) an English writer, best known as the author of Frankenstein. She was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, and is also remembered for having run away with the poet Shelley at the age of 16. She married Shelley after his first wife killed herself in 1816.
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Mary Shelley