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Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, considered an early example of science fiction. The daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1814 and married him in 1816. The novel grew from Lord Byron's proposal, during a wet summer beside Lake Geneva in 1816, that they each write a ghost story, and was published anonymously in 1818. Widowed in 1822, she became a professional author, writing novels such as The Last Man and editing her husband's poems.
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