Mary Shelley

The Profile

Mary Shelley (1797–1851) was an English novelist best known for Frankenstein (first published 1818).

Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin; married to Percy Bysshe Shelley. Author of Frankenstein, a foundational Gothic and early science-fiction novel.

A strongly positive, analytical reading of Frankenstein that highlights the monster as a romantic Prometheus and the novel's place in Gothic and early science fiction. The review praises Shelley's moral and emotional complexity.