Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin) was an English novelist best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), considered an early work of science fiction. Daughter of philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, she eloped with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited his works after his death, and wrote several other novels amid personal tragedies including the loss of children.[1][6]