Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) 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 in 1814, married him in 1816 after his first wife's death, and edited his works after his 1822 drowning. She authored several other novels including Valperga (1823) and The Last Man (1826), amid personal tragedies like multiple child losses.