Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. (Source.)
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- OLID: OL25342A
- Amazon ID: B00JLNLC7C
- BookBrainz: 401be5aa-1739-4cfd-8899-ff7588c02ca4
- GoodReads: 11139
- ISNI: 0000000120981238
- Integrated Authority File (GND): 11879695X
- IMDb: nm0791217
- Library of Congress Names: n79061063
- LibraryThing: shelleymary
- LibriVox: 783
- MusicBrainz: b58db027-dcd2-412c-8074-c19e49fccc8a
- Project Gutenberg: 61
- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): CFIV114179
- Storygraph: cc0f6e3e-f673-4d94-ae29-2c1f31d04256
- VIAF: 6293
- Wikidata: Q47152
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q47152
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- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Mary W. Shelley
- Mary Godwin Shelley
- mary shelley
- Shelley Mary
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