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Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley (1797–1851) was an English novelist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer best known for Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The daughter of writers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, she combined Gothic imagination with questions about scientific responsibility, creation, isolation, and human sympathy.

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    Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

    *Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus* is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20.

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