Mary Shelley was a British narrator, playwright, essayist, philosopher, and biographer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein, or The New Prometheus. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Mary Shelley was a British narrator, playwright, essayist, philosopher, and biographer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein, or The New Prometheus. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.